The World's Oldest Alphabet from Carta Holiday - Sabbath - More or elsewhere

or elsewhere

The search for the beginnings of alphabetic scripts has borne fruit in the past century or so with a focus particularly

overview of the major historical events in the Ancient Near East

apart from the Bible

Jerusalem was at the apex of its glory and beauty during the last century before the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE

The World's Oldest Alphabet from Carta Holiday - Sabbath - More or elsewhereThe Worlds Oldest Alphabet: Hebrew as the Language of the Proto Consonantal Script. For about 150 years, scholars have attempted to identify the language of the world's first alphabetic script and to translate some of the inscriptions that use it. Until now, their attempts have accomplished little more than identifying most of the pictographic letters and translating a few of the Semitic words. With the publication of The World's Oldest Alphabet, a