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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A, B, C, D, E, F, G – makes you want to hum the alphabet song. But there’s no real reason ...

The early history of the alphabet may require rewriting. Four clay artefacts found at an ancient site in Syria are incised with what is potentially the earliest alphabetic writing ever found. The ...