US EditionA 4,500-Year-Old Discovery May Rewrite the History of the Alphabet
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A 4,500-Year-Old Discovery May Rewrite the History of the Alphabet
Photo: Glenn Schwartz / Johns Hopkins University A recent archaeological discovery in northern Syria may challenge everything we thought we knew about the origins of the alphabet.Rethinking the Alphabet’s OriginsUntil now, the prevailing scholarly consensus has been that the earliest known alphabet was the so-called Proto-Sinaitic script, developed around 4,000 years ago by Canaanite workers in an Egyptian mine in the Sinai Peninsula. This early…
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