{ "id": "d6826bf7296e11b6f4a92315971a88a08d90b68c903081df9cf63a2082a6187c", "pubkey": "17538dc2a62769d09443f18c37cbe358fab5bbf981173542aa7c5ff171ed77c4", "created_at": 1737139236, "kind": 9802, "tags": [ [ "r", "https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/how-uc-santa-cruz-professor-unearthed-oldest-alphabet-yet", "source" ], [ "comment", "⛏️🔎" ] ], "content": "Schwartz and his colleagues used radiocarbon dating to determine that the tomb burials date to around 2400 BCE, placing the cylinders from Tomb 4 five centuries earlier than any previously known alphabetic inscriptions. ", "sig": "f9148c58effddf43b57719edd4d686669a4337698bd1927bb4bf44316e53446cf01670ca36dfeb7ade3d155824679b6dcec8bdb7560076b9f4ecb1a21eed57c1" }