The engraved symbols may be part of the earliest known alphabet, but not everyone agrees. . | Credit: Glenn Schwartz/Johns Hopkins University With so many ancient texts around the world ...

The archaeology team discovered a series of ancient tombs in an elite mortuary ... This discovery of the world’s oldest alphabet was made in 2004, but Schwarz finally presented his findings ...

For decades, it's been a common belief that the Ancient Egyptians were responsible for the very first alphabet. Now, a shocking finding challenges this assumption, pushing back the age of the ...

Schwartz discovered the finger-sized cylinder, along with three others bearing similar etchings, in a tomb at Tell Umm el-Marra, an ancient city ... ideas shaping our world today.

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet ... excavated from a tomb in an ancient Syrian city known as Tell ...

Symbols on finger-sized clay objects discovered during dig at ancient city of Umm el-Marra could be earliest known alphabet (Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University) This form of writing may have ...

With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, what is the oldest confirmed alphabet in the world? Experts told Live ...