The 4,000-Year-Old Secret Behind the First Alphabet | Human | BBC Timestamp

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In 1905, archaeologists at Serabit el-Khadim in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula uncovered mysterious inscriptions carved into the walls of a 4,000-year-old turquoise mine. The strange symbols, later called Proto-Sinaitic, puzzled scholars for decades, until they realised they were looking at the earliest alphabet in history. But who really gave birth to this simple script that would evolve into the modern alphabets used by billions today?