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Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet, believed to have existed in the Middle East hundreds of years earlier than other ancient scripts.

In Tell Umm-el Marra, a former city located in northwestern modern Syria that was once a busy crossroads of two trade routes, an ancient text that is 4400 years old was found. It was found in a tomb ...

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Clay cylinders that are 4,400 years old, unearthed from a tomb in Syria, are inscribed with traces of the earliest known alphabetic writing system. The tomb, discovered in Umm el-Marra in 2004 ...

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