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The clay cylinders were found in a tomb containing six skeletons. (Glenn Schwartz / Johns Hopkins University)
Archaeologists Say These Mysterious Markings Could Be the World's Oldest Known Alphabetic Writing
Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known alphabetic scripts
Sonja Anderson
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