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Antiquity. Discovered in 2018 at a dig site in Tel Lachish, Israel, the fragment dates back to around 3,450 years ago and contains letters used by people in the Levant, an ancient region along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, which includes modern-day Israel.
Researchers from the
Austrian Academy of Sciences and the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem call the inscription “a missing link” because it connects the earliest known alphabetic writing to the Levantines’ alphabetic script.
“Dating to the fifteenth century B.C., this inscription is currently the oldest securely dated alphabetic inscription from the Southern Levant,” the researchers wrote.
The gap in the alphabet’s history