[HN Gopher] Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthe...
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Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient
Syrian city
Author : Someone
Score : 22 points
Date : 2024-11-23 22:11 UTC (48 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (hub.jhu.edu)
(TXT) w3m dump (hub.jhu.edu)
| mihaic wrote:
| Wow, this is impressive if actually true. I wonder how accurate
| their dating methodology is, since they have to do carbon dating
| on something in that layer, and not on the clay tablet itself.
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| It does seem strange that the alphabet would have remained
| isolated for so many hundreds years, and not spread out somewhere
| else.
| Ericson2314 wrote:
| CHON?
| drcode wrote:
| To clarify, this is specific to "alphabetic" writing,
| cuneiform/hieroglyphs are older.
| aprilthird2021 wrote:
| How does such research happen in Syria while it's being bombed by
| Israel? Just curious. Or did this discovery happen years ago
| Tagbert wrote:
| You may be thinking of Lebanon.
| ptidhomme wrote:
| Israel does regularly bomb Syria.
|
| https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/12/how-can-israel-
| att...
| mupuff1234 wrote:
| Syria also regularly bombs Syria.
| bojan wrote:
| Isreal is regularly bombing targets in Syria as well. But the
| targets seem to be mostly military installations, so the
| civilian life is not nearly as much disrupted as it is in
| Lebanon.
| nabakin wrote:
| Pretty sure you're confusing it with Lebanon, but Syria is
| pretty chaotic so it's impressive they were able to do this
| research regardless. People shouldn't be downvoting you for
| asking a question.
| PittleyDunkin wrote:
| I'm curious how they arrived at the conclusion it's an alphabet
| without deciphering it.
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