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December 6, 2024

The Oldest Alphabet Is Older Than Scholars Thought

An inscription dating back 4,400 years, likely in a script related to Hebrew.

Syria has recently been the source of a very different kind of news as well. Examining clay cylinders found at an ancient burial site near Aleppo and dating to the third millennium BCE, a team of researchers led by the Johns Hopkins archaeologist Glenn Schwartz found a surprising inscription. Miryam Naddaf reports:

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