Who INVENTED the ALPHABET?

4,000 years ago some turquoise miners working in Ancient Egypt etched graffiti into rocks in the Sinai desert. Their intention may have been to simplify hieroglyphics for their own personal use, but this graffiti caught on, eventually transforming into the Latin alphabet we use today.

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[garyworokevich]

I very much appreciate this info.
When you said the next time I write the letter A,
that it was an ox in ancient Egyptian writings.
This has inspired me to write a letter to a friend
in Egyptian glyphs, she likes weird things.
Am I biting off more than I can chew ??

[barrywalser]

Another superb video. Keep the info coming. Thanks Laura!

[vulpesvulpes]

Wow! That’s a whole new spin on my alphabet soup! Campbell’s neo-hieroglyph soup. Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, does it?

Ok! Ok! I’m leaving.

[floydriebe]

just found this! can i get notifications for shorts? anyway, quite interesting. i read a short article about this but i don't remember where. pretty cool how the pictures morphed into the letters used today! later, Laura-gator!

[arthur]

This is also origin of Hebrew after all Hebrew comes from proto canaanite I'm talking about written Hebrew

[burnastein]

So essentially cannanite / Assyrian people indigenous to the area around Kemet were specifically the groups that did?