Mysteries of the Alphabet: The Origins of Writing

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ISBN-10:

0789205211

ISBN-13:

9780789205216

Released: Mar 01, 1999
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
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Description:

Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet.












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