George Hrab
speaker
185 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
George Hrab’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Like, nope, this is the oldest thing.
Anything older, we're going to explain away.
No, we change as new evidence comes along.
As long as it lines up with the Bible, exactly.
Well, in Syria...
They found these in a city called Umm al-Mahra, at a dig at the ancient city of Umm al-Mahra in Syria.
They found these little tiny clay, like finger-shaped little tubes that has what now is being assumed to be the earliest alphabet.
And it's 500 years older than what was considered to be the oldest alphabet coming up to it, which is really, really cool.
They had this site.
Archaeologists uncovered this tomb.
It goes back to the early Bronze Age.
And in this site, they had six skeletons, gold and silver jewelry, cookware, a spearhead, and intact pottery vessels.
This is 2400 BCE.
Next to the pottery, the researchers found four lightly baked clay cylinders with what seemed to be alphabetic writing on them.
And so they're not sure what the language is, but previously the oldest alphabet was thought to be in Egypt around 1900 BCE.
So this is like 500 years, five centuries older.
In a different country, a different sort of system of writing.
And it's pretty fascinating and exciting because it extends this idea of what language is to the human animal.
Now, concurrent with that was another story that I found.
that says, you know, culture, language is a very ancient human thing.
Showing 101–120 of 185 · page 6 of 10
← Previous
Next →