Ancient Alphabet Found in Syria

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Archaeologists May Have Just Found the Oldest Alphabet Ever

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4,400-year-old clay cylinders with what seems to be an alphabet were found in a Bronze Age tomb in Syria .

A Johns Hopkins University archaeologist is claiming that the four finger-length artifacts might be the oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing in history.

If this assessment is correct, it would disrupt previous assumptions about the origin of the first known alphabet.

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