Earliest Version of Our Alphabet Possibly Discovered
One side of the inscribed 3,400-year-old piece of pottery may show an ancient forerunner to our alphabet sequence.
The earliest example of our alphabet — a possible mnemonic phrase that helped someone remember "ABCD" — has been discovered on a 3,400-year-old inscribed piece of limestone from ancient Egypt, a scholar believes.
Three of the words start with the ancient equivalent of B, C and D, creating what may be a mnemonic phrase.
Thomas Schneider, a professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia, reported the discovery in a paper published recently in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. This discovery "would be the first historical attestation of 'our' alphabet sequence," he told Live Science in an email.
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Does this make AE/Africa source of the Indo-European language and not the Steppes of Asia?
Any linguist here?
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