DAMASCUS, 11 January (BelTA - SANA Agensy). - The oldest cuneiform alphabet in history was discovered in Ugarit (Ras Shamra), an ancient city located on the Syrian coast, dating back to 1500 BC.

In her latest poetry collection "The Tablets: Secrets of the Clay", Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian poet Dunya Mikhail resurrects ...

The cuneiform tablets that have been discovered over the years contain a wealth of information about ancient Iraq, from religious texts and myths to trade records and personal letters. Many of these ...

The University of Cambridge says the modern English alphabet was first used more than 3,000 years ago in Ugarit, which is now Syria. It may have spread through travel and trade.

This tablet is the only evidence of a school text in the cuneiform alphabet outside Ugarit. The other two inscriptions found in present-day Israel may represent a local Canaanite dialect and a writing ...

Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could ...

Experts say the items—a fragment of a stone tablet inscribed with cuneiform characters and a prism used to teach children the cuneiform alphabet—are at least 4,000 years old.

The artifacts — a fragment of a stone tablet inscribed with cuneiform characters and a hexagonal prism used to teach schoolchildren the alphabet — are believed to be about 4,000 years old ...