The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...