In 2010, archaeologist Glenn Schwartz quietly suggested that the history of writing needs, well, rewriting. More than a decade later, he still thinks he's on to something. If he's right, the world's ...

An archaeological breakthrough to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) reveals that the oldest known examples of alphabetic writing have been ...

SANTA CRUZ — While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning ...

A recent archaeological discovery could overturn our understanding of the origins of alphabetic writing. Clay cylinders, dated to 2400 BCE, bear inscriptions that might represent the earliest traces ...

Dating back to approximately 2400 BCE, this discovery predates previously identified alphabetic scripts by about 500 years, ...

AN awe-inspiring discovery of the oldest known alphabet has been found in a tomb by a group of archaeologists. The ancient writing was found on several clay cylinders, each the length of a finger, in ...

In late November, speaking at an academic conference in Boston, veteran archaeologist Glenn Schwartz of Johns Hopkins University made a startling claim: Four tiny clay cylinder-shaped seals, which had ...

When it comes to the fruits of human genius the wheel gets a lot of credit as the most important invention in human history. If you roll the wheel to the side, however, the alphabet and different ways ...

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