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Archaeologists Say These Mysterious Markings Could Be the World’s Oldest Known Alphabetic ...
Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...
Ancient Syrian Tomb Yields World’s Oldest Alphabetic Writing
In the early 2000s, archaeologists excavating a tomb at Tell Umm-el Marra, a site 35 miles east of Aleppo, Syria, discovered ...