While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with the oldest known alphabetic symbols.

The Cuneiform alphabetic texts : from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and other places (KTU) Publication date 1995 Topics Ugaritic language -- Texts, Ugaritic language, Keilschrifttext, Ras-Schamra-Alphabet, ...

Archaeologist Glenn Schwartz unearthed four ancient clay fragments in northern Syria bearing inscriptions that may be the earliest known alphabetic writings. This cylinder could be inscribed with ...

Digital Clay: Cuneiform languages represent the earliest known writing systems in human history. The Sumerians used this method by making indentations in clay tablets, a practice later adopted by ...

Archaeological findings suggest that alphabetic writing may be about 500 years older than other discoveries. Glenn Schwartz. Javier Yanes. Dec 30, 2024 - 15:22CET. Share on Whatsapp. ... Egyptian ...

A Johns Hopkins archaeologist recycles a 20-year-old hypothesis that small clay cylinders found in an ancient tomb reset the genesis of letters by 500 years. Why are people listening now?

Early forms, such as hieroglyphics or cuneiform, were complex, representing words or concepts through numerous symbols. However, the alphabet, which breaks words into distinct sounds, allowed for ...

Why the discovery of the first alphabetic writing is important. Unlike complex systems like i hieroglyphs or the cuneiform writingthe invention of alphabets in antiquity has simplified the writing ...

Small clay cylinders unearthed in an ancient Syrian tomb could be the world’s oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing – predating previous examples by centuries, researchers believe. In the early ...

Cuneiform, considered to be the oldest known writing system, was developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia (an ancient region centered on modern-day Iraq) more than 5,000 years ago.