The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most …

The civilizations in and around Mesopotamia are credited with inventing the first true writing systems in the world. Several clay tablets from this time period have survived and this list contains the …

What Is The Oldest Written Text That Has Ever Been Found? The oldest confirmed writing is on an ancient Sumerian artifact, but the road to its creation is long and fascinating. Dr. Russell Moul

Researchers may have deciphered the oldest known scrap of alphabetic writing yet discovered, and it may be a nearly 4,500-year-old gift tag. A clay cylinder found in a tomb holding six...

They’ve now concluded that those symbols are letters—and they may be the world’s oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing. The tomb is located in Tell Umm-el Marra, an ancient city some...

Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb...

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 ancient scripts.

US researchers have discovered what appears to be the oldest known alphabetic writing in the world, after finding finger-length clay cylinders from a tomb in Syria with the etched details.

Ancient Chinese writing developed early in the second millennium B.C., while the earliest known writing system in the Americas is the Olmec script, from about 600 B.C. But none of these early...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest alphabet in human history. Small clay cylinders from an ancient Syrian tomb show clear markings of letters etched into them. Using carbon dating, …