Scientists unearth earliest known Hebrew ABCs - Africa & Middle East - International Herald TribuneScientists unearth earliest known Hebrew ABCs
By John Noble Wilford The New York Times
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2005In the 10th century B.C., in the hill country south of Jerusalem, a scribe carved his ABCs on a limestone boulder - actually, his aleph-beth-gimels, for the string of letters appears to be an early rendering of the emergent Hebrew alphabet.
As a point of reference, the oldest cuneiform tablets date only to around 3500 BC, and are (or were, at least) the oldest examples of writing.