The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula ... family into the intellectual powerhouse of the modern world. Fire was a big one and wheels certainly helped ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation ... a few key innovations transformed this simple member of the Great Ape family into ...

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Korea is perhaps the only country in the world to have a holiday to celebrate the development of its writing system, known as hangul. In South Korea, they do so on October 9, close to the date on ...

This challenges the notion that the Ancient Egyptians created the first alphabet. In 2400 BC, they had developed hieratic script, a cursive form of hieroglyphic signs. Schwartz said: "Previously ...

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.

“Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around ... of all future debates and discussions about the world’s first use of an alphabetic writing system.” ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest alphabet in human history ... The Tell Umm-el Marra site was one of the first medium-sized centers in the region.

The inscription found on an ivory comb unearthed in Tel Lachish, the second most important city in the Biblical Kingdom of Judah, provides evidence for the use of the alphabet some 3,700 years ago.