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and the story goes that the earliest alphabet—known as Proto-Sinaitic script—developed in the Sinai peninsula, which transformed some Egyptian hieroglyphics into a phonetic script. However ...
This finding challenges previous beliefs, as scholars had previously assumed the alphabet originated around 1900 BC in Egypt. The discovery from Syria suggests that the origins of the alphabet may be ...
“Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE,” said Dr Schwartz. “But our artefacts are older and from a different area on the map, suggesting the ...
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Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest alphabet in human history. Small clay cylinders from an ancient Syrian tomb show clear markings of letters etched into them. Using carbon dating ...
“It changes the entire narrative of how the alphabet was introduced,” Professor Schwartz was quoted by Scientific American. The writing is on clay cylinders, each of which is about the thickness of a ...
“It changes the entire narrative of how the alphabet was introduced,” Schwartz says. Small holes drilled into the cylinders could have been used to string them on thread. As such, the clay ...
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