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A UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet
The emerging importance of the find underscores a key truth about archaeology: artifacts often hold secrets that only later generations can unlock.
Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at an Early Bronze Age burial site in Umm el-Marra, Western Syria—35 miles from modern-day Aleppo—Elaine Sullivan unearthed a pivotal clue: four small clay cylinders inscribed with mysterious symbols. Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at an Early Bronze Age burial site in Umm el-Marra, Western Syria — 35 miles from modern-day Aleppo — Sullivan unearthed a pivotal clue: four small clay cylinders inscribed with mysterious symbols. Courtesy photo She quickly called over her advisor, Glenn Schwartz, an archaeologist at Johns Hopkins University, who examined the object with care.
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