First discovered in 2004 but confirmed thanks to recent carbon dating, researchers found the world's oldest alphabet in a Syrian tomb.

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

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

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

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