New research continues to uncover the complexities of Soknopaiou Nesos, focusing on its difficult Demotic texts and the ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known alphabetic scripts ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.