The Phoenician alphabet
c. 1050 BC · Byblos
Phoenician scribes write with 22 simple letters for sounds instead of hundreds of signs.
The ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic alphabets.
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c. 1050 BC · Byblos
Phoenician scribes write with 22 simple letters for sounds instead of hundreds of signs.
The ancestor of the Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic alphabets.
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