This kind of writing system came thousands of years later, and the story goes that the earliest alphabet—known as Proto-Sinaitic script—developed in the Sinai peninsula, which transformed some ...
In fact, it’s so old that the Aramaic used in the stele was still being written in the Phoenician alphabet — a language that predates Aramaic. The ancient inscription refers to the “House of ...
Originally it was written in Arabic. Enter the Soviet Union who in 1929 did away with Arabic and introduced Latin - only to 11 years later shift to the Cyrillic alphabet to have the republic more ...
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.