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Four finger-like tablets found in a tomb in Umm-el Marra , an ancient city in Syria , show evidence of a proto-alphabet some 500 years before the linguistic advancements in the Sinai Peninsula .
The first writing systems, Mesopotamia ’s cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics, developed more than 5,000 years ago .
For now, experts have only a very small sample of the alphabetic writing system.
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