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Schwartz
[ shwawrts ]
noun
- Del·more [del, -mawr, -mohr], 1913–1966, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
Example Sentences
"Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially elite. Alphabetic writing changed the way people lived, how they thought, how they communicated," said Glenn Schwartz, a professor of archaeology at Johns Hopkins University who discovered the clay cylinders.
Schwartz will share details of his discovery on Thursday, Nov.
A Near Eastern archaeologist, Schwartz studies how early urban areas developed throughout Syria and how smaller cities emerged in the region.
"The cylinders were perforated, so I'm imagining a string tethering them to another object to act as a label. Maybe they detail the contents of a vessel, or maybe where the vessel came from, or who it belonged to," Schwartz said.
"Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime after 1900 BCE," Schwartz said.
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