For centuries, the world believed the ancient Egyptians pioneered the alphabet. Now, a groundbreaking discovery has pushed the origins of alphabetic writing back by a staggering 500 years.

Archaeologists remain baffled by a surprising, seemingly ahistorical find located deep in the Canadian wilderness. But after years of research, analysis, and historical corroboration, an ...

And because the invention of writing is regarded as the great divide between prehistory and history, the discovery may push back the beginning of recorded Egyptian history 100 to 150 years, to ...

Archaeology breakthrough as ancient text suggests alphabet is 500 years older than thought. ... scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE," he said.