SAN ANTONIO — The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes. Israelites living in Egypt ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city. What appears to be ...

Many experts think that around 4,000 years ago, the Canaanites invented the world's first alphabet, called proto-Sinaitic script. This script, invented by Canaanite workers at an Egyptian turquoise ...