First alphabet

According to Official Guinness Records,

The earliest known example of an alphabet - that is, a writing system in which a small number of symbols are used to represent single sounds rather than concepts - dates back to around 1900 BC and was found carved into limestone in Wadi el Hol near Luxor in Egypt by Yale University Egyptologist John Darnell (USA) in the early 1990s.Note that this is not the earliest known 'writing'.

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Content last updated on 2018-11-27