Byblos syllabaryEvidence
Evidence · Byblos syllabary
Vita and Zamora present the script as one of several local Syro-Palestinian writing experiments existing alongside or…
Vita and Zamora present the script as one of several local Syro-Palestinian writing experiments existing alongside or before the linear alphabets, with Egyptian writing as a general model whose direct transmission cannot be proven.
What it means
Key questionWhere did the Byblos signs come from, and is the script related to the Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician alphabets?
2 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onLocal creation; resemblances to the alphabet are not ancestral
Supports1 for, none against
Still possiblewas No evidence yet
Sources 1
The Byblos Script
SRCVita 2018
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Vita and Zamora present the script as one of several local Syro-Palestinian writing experiments existing alongside or… [Evidence EVD0DEDVNFGQXRK]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDVNFGQXRK
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