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A UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet

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142 points diodorus | 1 comments | 13 Jan 25 20:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.392s | source
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ahazred8ta ◴[13 Jan 25 22:04 UTC] No.42690067[source]▶
The inscribed Umm el-Marra cylinders of northwestern Syria, circa 2400 BC, 500 years before alphabetic writing was derived in Sinai from Egyptian hieratic phonetic writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script

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