Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet, believed to have existed in the Middle ...

“It’s an alphabet,” says Silvia Ferrara ... and many populations around the Middle East were likely familiar with the Egyptian writing system. “It’s not that surprising,” she says ...

Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University Between 1994 and 2010, American and Dutch archaeologists excavated an Early Bronze Age site east ... known alphabet. “Alphabets revolutionized writing ...

Dr Schwartz and his team study how early urban areas in the Near East developed throughout ... known oldest alphabetic writing. “Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or ...

However, the academic admits he 'can only speculate' exactly what the writing says. Before the alphabet ... one of the ancient Near East's oldest cities, located on a crossroads of two trade ...

“The writing on these cylinder seals seems ... and international media in the Tell Umm al-Marra area east of Aleppo is an ‘alphabet,’” according to a report in the state-owned Syria ...

A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way — by someone scrolling through social media. The inscription, on a slate slab unearthed in Spain ...