The Oldest Known Alphabet Unearthed in Ancient Syria

A Revolutionary Find in Human History

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence¹ of the oldest known alphabetic writing, pushing the origins of this transformative communication system back by nearly 500 years. The discovery was made at Tell Umm-el Marra, an ancient city in western Syria, where clay cylinders bearing early alphabetic inscriptions were unearthed from a tomb dated to around 2400 …