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The early history of the alphabet may require rewriting. Four clay artefacts found at an ancient site in Syria are incised with what is potentially the earliest alphabetic writing ever found. The ...
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French archaeologist says he cracked a mysterious 4,000-year-old Bronze Age script from ancient Iran
For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear Elamite, a 4,000-year-old writing system from ancient Iran. They appeared on ...
New research confirms that letter shapes become predictably simpler over time to make reading and writing more efficient. The first letter in the English alphabet is famously thought to be descended ...
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