Alphabet Scoop
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reports ...
American researchers have discovered a 3,000-year-old stone on which is written the oldest known version of the Hebrew alphabet, the precursor of all the alphabets used in the Middle East as well as the modern English alphabet.Click HERE for more.
The 22 letters of the ancient alphabet were inscribed on the 38-pound stone in their proper order, making it the oldest known abecedary — the letters written out in their traditional order.
posted by Quintero at 5:00 AM
1 Comments:
Isn't that incorrect? The Phoenician alphabet was the precursor of both the Hebrew and the Greek alphabets (the latter being the precursor of our Latin alphabet).
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