The Story of The Alphabet

Ægean ancient appears Arabic Aramean Asia Assyrian Babylonian belts called Canon Taylor century B.C. characters chief Chinese Cretan Crete culture cuneiform cuneiform writing cursive Cypriote decipherment demotic denote depicted derived discovery dynasty Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphics engraved Eshmunazar Eteocretan Evans evidence examples figures Greece Greek alphabet Gyllis Hebrew Hellenic Herodotus hieratic Hittite hundred ideograms ideographic Indian indicated inscribed inscriptions interpretation invention island king knot known language Latin material Mayas means medicine-man Mediterranean Moabite Stone monuments Mycenæ Mycenæan civilisation Nile Ojibwa origin papyrus Papyrus Prisse Pelasgians Persian Phoenician alphabet phonetic phonograms pictographic pictorial picture picture-writing prehistoric preserved primitive probably Professor Flinders Petrie Ptolemy purpose quipu race records relics represented Roman Rosetta Stone Rougé's runes sacred script Semitic Semitic letters shown signs skin sounds stage syllabary syllabic symbols tablets temple theory thousand totem tradition tribes wâbeno wampum whence words written