The Story of the AlphabetD. Appleton, 1910 - 209 pages |
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acter Ægean alpha ancient animals appears Arabic Assyrian belts called Canon Taylor century B.C. characters chief Chinese civilisation Cretan Crete cuneiform cuneiform writing cursive Cypriote Darius decipherment demotic denote depicted derived discovery dynasty Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphs engraved Eshmunazar Evans examples figures Greece Greek Greek alphabet Gyllis hand Hebrew Hellenic Herodotus hieratic Hittite hundred ideograms ideographic Indian indicated inscribed inscription interpretation invented island king knots known language Latin linear marks Mayas means medicine-man ments Moabite Stone monuments Mycena Mycenæan nicians Nile Ojibwa origin papyrus Papyrus Prisse Pelasgians Persian Phoenician alphabet phonetic phonogram pictographic pictorial picture picture-writing primitive probably Professor Flinders Petrie Ptolemy purpose quipus race record relics represent Roman Rosetta Stone Rougé Rougé's sacred scribe script Semitic shown side signs skin sounds stage story syllabary syllabic symbols tablet temple theory thousand tion totem tribes wampum words written