A team from John Hopkins University led by archaeologist Glenn Schwartz has unearthed possible evidence of alphabetic writing from the Early Bronze Age at Tell Umm el-Marra, the site of an ancient city in Syria. While excavating an Early Bronze Age tomb, the team found six skeletons, gold and silver jewelry, weapons, ceramic vessels, and four clay cylinders that appeared to have alphabetic writing on them. The cylinders also had holes in them, suggesting that a string was used to attach them to a vessel, and that the writing on the cylinders provided information about the contents or owner of the vessel. According to the press release (see link below) Schwartz notes, “Without a means to translate the writing, we can only speculate.” If the finger-sized cylinders do indeed bear alphabetic writing, this discovery would push the development of the alphabetic script back by 500 years.
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