Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

This ancient writing system was used more than 5000 years ... they apparently invented their own symbols—and didn't bother to keep track of them in an organized way, expert Jacob Dahl told ...

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...