What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in Syria by a team of Johns Hopkins University ...

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Dating back to approximately 2400 BCE, this discovery predates previously identified alphabetic scripts by about 500 years, according to Professor Glenn Schwartz of Johns Hopkins University.