World's Oldest Alphabet Found on an Ancient Clay Gift Tag
Briefly

"A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six skeletons in northern Syria bears the word silanu, which may be a name, says Glenn Schwartz..."
"Scientists previously thought that the first alphabet was created around 1900 B.C.E. by people speaking a Semitic language on the Sinai Peninsula, but this new finding suggests..."
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