The alphabet of the early western Greek dialects, where the letter eta remained an /h/, gave rise to the Old Italic alphabet which in turn developed into the Old Roman alphabet.

Nov 22, 2024 · Scientists previously thought that the first alphabet was created around 1900 B.C.E. by people speaking a Semitic language on the Sinai Peninsula in what is now Egypt. …

Nov 22, 2024 · Using radiocarbon dating, the researchers determined that the cylinders were made around 2400 B.C.E., which would make them about 500 years older than other known …

Apr 16, 2025 · Until now, the prevailing scholarly consensus has been that the earliest known alphabet was the so-called Proto-Sinaitic script, developed around 4,000 years ago by …

Apr 6, 2025 · But not everyone is convinced by the discovery, and maintain that proto-Sinaitic script is the oldest known alphabet, which is a specific kind of writing system.

Nov 21, 2024 · Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet, believed to have existed in the Middle East hundreds of years earlier than other …

Nov 19, 2016 · SAN ANTONIO — The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes.

Nov 21, 2024 · A research team at Johns Hopkins University has discovered evidence of the world’s oldest alphabetic writing, carved onto finger-length clay cylinders, outdating other …

Nov 24, 2024 · Our story begins in Syria, where a team from Johns Hopkins University made an unexpected discovery. The researchers unearthed finger-length clay cylinders from an ancient …

Mar 31, 2025 · Evidence of what might be the oldest alphabetic writing in human history has been discovered etched onto clay cylinders found in a tomb in Syria by a team of researchers from …