ALEPPO Researchers have discovered evidence of what they say is the world’s oldest alphabet , believed to have existed in the Middle East hundreds of years earlier than other ancient scripts, New York Times has reported. The early human discovery dating back to 2,400 B.C. was made by analyzing clay fragments at a 16-year-long archaeological dig, Syria’s bronze-aged Tell Umm-el Marra, east of Aleppo. “Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900