# Local creation; resemblances to the alphabet are not ancestral

> Still possible: The Byblos script is a local invention loosely inspired by Egyptian writing, and its resemblances to Phoenician letters are either…

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# Local creation; resemblances to the alphabet are not ancestral

The Byblos script is a local invention loosely inspired by Egyptian writing, and its resemblances to Phoenician letters are either coincidental or borrowed from the alphabet, not ancestral to it.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- No consistent consonant mapping from Egyptian parents to Byblos signs survives the seal values.
- The letter-like Byblos signs do not carry the consonants of the letters they resemble.

## What would rule it out

- A sign-by-sign derivation from Egyptian uniconsonantal signs whose predicted values read the texts.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Vita and Zamora present the script as one of several local Syro-Palestinian writing experiments existing alongside or…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVNFGQXRK/vita-and-zamora-present-the-script-as-one-of-several-local)

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## The questions it answers

[Where did the Byblos signs come from, and is the script related to the Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician alphabets?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQBGYEW6/where-did-the-byblos-signs-come-from-and-is-the-script)

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