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World's oldest ALPHABET is discovered: Ancient 4,400-year-old text is found on clay cylinders from a tomb in Syria - and it upends everything we thought we knew about the origin of writing.

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Clay objects discovered during a dig at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra were engraved with symbols that may be part of the earliest known alphabet. Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University ( CC ...

World’s Oldest Alphabet Turns Up in Ancient Syrian Tomb. The writing was found on cylinders dating back to around 2400 B.C.E. Photo: Courtesy of Glenn Schwarz, Johns Hopkins University.

The team has been involved in a 16-year archaeological excavation at Tell Umm-el Marra, one of the first medium-sized ancient urban centres known to have popped up in western Syria.