However, a 2021 release about the cylinders on the Johns Hopkins website notes that Schwartz had addressed the nature of the ... claim that the earliest alphabet was found in Syria sparks a ...

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. The early human ...

Schwartz most recently floated his alphabet hypothesis in 2021 in an Italian ... discovery of a group of undisturbed, elite tombs found in a larger mortuary complex. According to a November ...