# Session 1: The Byblos syllabary seeded: corpus, readings and open data > The Byblos script is undeciphered in the strict sense: about 100 signs, 1,046 tokens, no bilingual, no agreed sound value, and no agreed date within a… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/sessions/SES0DEDWWFFGTGW/session-1-the-byblos-syllabary-seeded-corpus-readings-and Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Byblos syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary)[Research sessions](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/sessions)Session 1 Research session 1 · Byblos syllabary # The Byblos syllabary seeded: corpus, readings and open data First seeding of the Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic script as a mystery: the fourteen-odd inscriptions, the 1945 edition, the 90 to 114 sign inventory, the disputed date, every decipherment claim from 1946 to 2024 with its critique, and the small set of open data that exists. Session **1** 31 Oct 2026**18** evidence [Latest session · all 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/sessions) ## In brief 1. The Byblos script is undeciphered in the strict sense: about 100 signs, 1,046 tokens, no bilingual, no agreed sound value, and no agreed date within a 1,500-year span. 1. Three full decipherments (Dhorme 1946, Mendenhall 1985, Best 2008) have been published and none has passed an independent check; the 2024 GEAS test against the Akhenaten-daughters seal is the first explicit falsification test applied to one of them. 1. The only open data are the GEAS Unicode transcription (browser tool, no export) and a handful of Commons images; a sign-frequency table from the tablets is the first thing to build. **What this changes:** Nothing moved on the questions themselves; the record now states what has been tested and what has not. ## What movedNo question changed standing [Can any sound values be fixed from external evidence, such as the Akhenaten-daughters seal or the Egyptian parent signs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQKMXR41/can-any-sound-values-be-fixed-from-external-evidence-such-as) raised this session **No evidence yet** unchanged [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)this question [Do the finds assigned to the script outside Byblos (Megiddo, Egypt, Italy) really belong to it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDR0755DC4/do-the-finds-assigned-to-the-script-outside-byblos-megiddo) raised this session **No evidence yet** unchanged [What language do the Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQPQYVGBW/what-language-do-the-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions)this question [Do the word boundaries and recurring morphemes found by sequence analysis fit the grammar of any proposed language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQZKNHJD0/do-the-word-boundaries-and-recurring-morphemes-found-by) raised this session **No evidence yet** unchanged [How many distinct signs does the script have, and how is it structured?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ8C80YA/how-many-distinct-signs-does-the-script-have-and-how-is-it) raised this session **No evidence yet** unchanged 3 more questions touched, none changed standing [What language do the Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQPQYVGBW/what-language-do-the-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions) raised this session+10 evidence, 4 for, 5 against, 1 neutral6 answers proposed **Open** [When were the Byblos inscriptions written?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ0JG3EE/when-were-the-byblos-inscriptions-written) raised this session+5 evidence, 3 for, 2 against3 answers proposed **Open** [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) raised this session+3 evidence, 2 for, 1 against2 answers proposed **Open** ## What's next4 steps set Open Obtain an export of the GEAS Unicode transcription, or transcribe the two tablets from Dunand's plates, and publish it as a dataset with a sign key. Kept on this session, not tied to a questionSet this session Open Read Garbini 1988 and 2009, Colless 1992-1995 and Sobelman 1961 in full; the summaries here rest on secondary reports. Kept on this session, not tied to a questionSet this session Open Confirm the holding and inventory numbers of the tablets and spatulas with the National Museum of Beirut or the DGA. Kept on this session, not tied to a questionSet this session Open Watch for Mäder's paper on the Akhenaten-daughters seal values in Ägypten und Levante and add it when published. Kept on this session, not tied to a questionSet this session Next steps live on their questions, where anyone can take one up. ## New questions 7 [Can any sound values be fixed from external evidence, such as the Akhenaten-daughters seal or the Egyptian parent signs?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQKMXR41/can-any-sound-values-be-fixed-from-external-evidence-such-as) QST [Do the finds assigned to the script outside Byblos (Megiddo, Egypt, Italy) really belong to it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDR0755DC4/do-the-finds-assigned-to-the-script-outside-byblos-megiddo) QST [Do the word boundaries and recurring morphemes found by sequence analysis fit the grammar of any proposed language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQZKNHJD0/do-the-word-boundaries-and-recurring-morphemes-found-by) QST [How many distinct signs does the script have, and how is it structured?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ8C80YA/how-many-distinct-signs-does-the-script-have-and-how-is-it) QST [What language do the Byblos pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQPQYVGBW/what-language-do-the-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions) QST [When were the Byblos inscriptions written?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ0JG3EE/when-were-the-byblos-inscriptions-written) QST [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) QST ## What was done 1. Read the Linear A records to match house style, then searched the site: no Byblos, Beirut, Colless or Proto-Sinaitic records existed. 1. Researched the corpus from the current overviews [@vita2018byblos] [@merlo2022mnamon], the editions [@dunand1945byblia] [@dunand1978nouvelles], the dating debate [@sass2019pseudo] and the exhibition catalogue [@haring2024byblos]. The ten main texts carry 1,046 signs; the two bronze tablets carry two thirds of them; the inventory is 90 to 114 signs depending on how variants are merged. 1. Traced every decipherment claim to its publication: Hrozný and Dhorme (1946), Sobelman and Martin (1961-1962), Mendenhall (1985) and Garbini's review (1988), Hoch (1990, 1995), Colless (1992-2014), Woudhuizen (2007), Best (2008-2018), Garbini (2009), Rassokha (2017), and the GEAS work of Mäder and Schmutz (2019-2024) [@mendenhall1985syllabic] [@best2008breaking] [@schmutz2024byblos] [@maeder2022detecting]. 1. Found that the only externally anchored sound values are the two proposed from the Akhenaten-daughters seal, still unpublished [@maeder2023soundvalue], and that the only readable passage is Hoch's hieratic date on fragment l [@hoch1995hieratic]. 1. Checked Unicode: Byblos is a tentative, unproposed block on the SMP roadmap [@unicode2026smproadmap]. 1. Located free-licence images on Wikimedia Commons (Commons API was rate-limited for a time; retried): a 2019 photograph in the National Museum of Beirut used as lead image, a 2026 photograph from the Institut du Monde Arabe exhibition, and the van Deukeren sign table. 1. Published 28 sources, 2 places, 8 figures, the mystery, 11 events, 4 artifacts, 4 copies, 4 datasets, 5 key questions and 2 sub-questions, 11 answers and 16 pieces of evidence, concept links and 4 next steps. 1. Not done: no open machine-readable transcription exists to upload; the GEAS corpus is a browser tool without a licence. The web-search budget ran out before DOIs for the older journal articles (Dhorme, Sobelman, Hoch) could be confirmed, so those sources carry catalogue or author-page URLs. Answers proposed 11 [An archaic West Semitic language (Mendenhall, Colless)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDS7919YAY/an-archaic-west-semitic-language-mendenhall-colless) ANS [Early Bronze Age, c. 2400 BC or earlier (Mendenhall, Hoch)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDT0M1GCMG/early-bronze-age-c-2400-bc-or-earlier-mendenhall-hoch) ANS [Egyptian-derived syllabary, ancestor of the alphabet (Hoch, Colless)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDT0YB9TS7/egyptian-derived-syllabary-ancestor-of-the-alphabet-hoch) ANS [Iron Age, c. 900-830 BC (Sass)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDT0Q4XR3A/iron-age-c-900-830-bc-sass) ANS [Local creation; resemblances to the alphabet are not ancestral](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDT13MFT4Z/local-creation-resemblances-to-the-alphabet-are-not) ANS [Middle Bronze Age, c. 1900-1600 BC (Dunand)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDT09DQ846/middle-bronze-age-c-1900-1600-bc-dunand) ANS [None of these.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDSHY4A7SR/none-of-these) ANS [Northwest Semitic with Akkadian and Hurrian elements (Best, Woudhuizen)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDS82XZT4Q/northwest-semitic-with-akkadian-and-hurrian-elements-best) ANS [The Byblos inscriptions record Phoenician or a closely related Canaanite dialect.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDS6V0FS2V/the-byblos-inscriptions-record-phoenician-or-a-closely) ANS [The Byblos inscriptions record Sanskrit, written with signs whose values are those of the Brahmi letters they resemble.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDSH1KX1WA/the-byblos-inscriptions-record-sanskrit-written-with-signs) ANS [Undetermined: the texts cannot yet be assigned to a language](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/answers/ANS0DEDSH7W3M43/undetermined-the-texts-cannot-yet-be-assigned-to-a-language) ANS Answers proposed 4 [Bronze tablet d: Unicode transcription in the GEAS Online Corpus of Byblos Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/copies/CPY0DEDQF8VJ73W/bronze-tablet-d-unicode-transcription-in-the-geas-online) CPY [Photograph: Byblos stone inscription exhibited at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 2026](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/copies/CPY0DEDPAEBNABK/photograph-byblos-stone-inscription-exhibited-at-the) CPY [Photograph: Byblos syllabary inscription in the National Museum of Beirut](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/copies/CPY0DEDPA0J16DQ/photograph-byblos-syllabary-inscription-in-the-national) CPY [Sign table of the Byblos syllabary, revised from Dunand's list (Hans van Deukeren, 2007)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/copies/CPY0DEDPA5F9X8A/sign-table-of-the-byblos-syllabary-revised-from-dunands-list) CPY Answers proposed 4 [Bronze tablet c (Dunand inscription c)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/artifacts/ART0DEDN8G01RJ2/bronze-tablet-c-dunand-inscription-c) ART [Bronze tablet d (Dunand inscription d)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/artifacts/ART0DEDN81KX7EH/bronze-tablet-d-dunand-inscription-d) ART [The inscribed bronze spatulas (Dunand inscriptions b, e, f, i)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/artifacts/ART0DEDN8TSTWE2/the-inscribed-bronze-spatulas-dunand-inscriptions-b-e-f-i) ART [The stone stele fragments (Dunand inscriptions a, g, h, j and k to n)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/artifacts/ART0DEDN9D0Z1AQ/the-stone-stele-fragments-dunand-inscriptions-a-g-h-j-and-k) ART Evidence found 18 [A cylinder seal reported to name Akhenaten's daughters in Byblos signs would place a use of the script in the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVMVP13GW/a-cylinder-seal-reported-to-name-akhenatens-daughters-in) EVD [Best himself rejected Woudhuizen's revision of the reading, and Vita and Zamora judge Woudhuizen's correspondences…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV4CMT8KV/best-himself-rejected-woudhuizens-revision-of-the-reading) EVD [Colless reports that 18 of 22 Phoenician letters have a shape ancestor in the syllabary and that his own values…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDTQJ3MBDC/colless-reports-that-18-of-22-phoenician-letters-have-a) EVD [Dhorme's values for about 75 signs did not yield coherent Phoenician texts beyond the starting formula, and no…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDTK1261EK/dhormes-values-for-about-75-signs-did-not-yield-coherent) EVD [Dunand's excavation context and the hieratic character of the signs led him to a nineteenth to eighteenth century BC…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVKMSHWNN/dunands-excavation-context-and-the-hieratic-character-of-the) EVD [Egyptian hieratic was written on at least one Byblos stone fragment, and Hurrian has never been tested as the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV58K18RS/egyptian-hieratic-was-written-on-at-least-one-byblos-stone) EVD [Eight of the twelve most frequent Byblos sign types lie within a small graphical distance of an Egyptian…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVN022MA5/eight-of-the-twelve-most-frequent-byblos-sign-types-lie) EVD [Every proposed date for the Byblos inscriptions, from about 2400 to about 830 BC, is centuries earlier than the first…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV4KG6RGK/every-proposed-date-for-the-byblos-inscriptions-from-about) EVD [Garbini's review found Mendenhall's translations cryptic and his method unconstrained, and the reading was set aside…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDTP40P1F4/garbinis-review-found-mendenhalls-translations-cryptic-and) EVD [Hoch finds the closest Egyptian parallels for the Byblos sign forms in Old Kingdom characters of about 2700 to 2200 BC.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVM9V3QNK/hoch-finds-the-closest-egyptian-parallels-for-the-byblos) EVD [None of the 13 to 16 inscribed objects has a secure stratigraphic context, so the Middle Bronze Age date rests on…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVKZNT733/none-of-the-13-to-16-inscribed-objects-has-a-secure) EVD [Sequence analysis of the Unicode-transcribed corpus recovers morphemes and word boundaries without sound values…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV51A295T/sequence-analysis-of-the-unicode-transcribed-corpus-recovers) EVD [Tested against the Akhenaten-daughters seal and a phonetisation statistic, the Best and Woudhuizen values fail to…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV4524AXH/tested-against-the-akhenaten-daughters-seal-and-a) EVD [The current specialist overviews conclude that the script remains undeciphered and that no proposal since 1946 has…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDV4SM9H2R/the-current-specialist-overviews-conclude-that-the-script) EVD [The inscriptions share word dividers, framing and some sign forms with ninth-century Byblian Phoenician inscriptions…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDTKCJPF5X/the-inscriptions-share-word-dividers-framing-and-some-sign) EVD [The intermediates between the Byblos syllabary and the linear alphabets are few and obscure, and the proto-alphabet is…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVN83FCDR/the-intermediates-between-the-byblos-syllabary-and-the) EVD [The pseudo-hieroglyphic objects share the spatula medium, word dividers, text framing and some sign forms with…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/evidence/EVD0DEDVMHTSEDW/the-pseudo-hieroglyphic-objects-share-the-spatula-medium) EVD [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) EVD Used: datasets 4 [Byblos syllabary sign table after Dunand (van Deukeren 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0)](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDQ0G8C7ER/byblos-syllabary-sign-table-after-dunand-van-deukeren-2007) DAT [Mnamon: Byblos (pseudo-hieroglyphic) sign list, photo gallery and bibliography](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDQ1AVBRRY/mnamon-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-sign-list-photo-gallery) DAT [Online Corpus of Byblos Inscriptions (OCBI), GEAS Unicode transcription](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDPZFC4AWM/online-corpus-of-byblos-inscriptions-ocbi-geas-unicode) DAT [Wikimedia Commons: Byblos syllabary category (free-licence photographs and sign drawings)](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDQ1FKG4RF/wikimedia-commons-byblos-syllabary-category-free-licence) DAT Consulted: sources 30 [A Preliminary Report after Re-Examination of the Byblian Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFK99C4HQ/a-preliminary-report-after-re-examination-of-the-byblian) SRC [Breaking the Code of the Byblos Script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDG4KS0FJY/breaking-the-code-of-the-byblos-script) SRC [Byblia Grammata: Documents et recherches sur le développement de l'écriture en Phénicie](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDF2YQM7E3/byblia-grammata-documents-et-recherches-sur-le-developpement) SRC [Byblos (Pseudo-hieroglyphic) - Mnamon: Ancient Writing Systems in the Mediterranean](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH5FYW6VK/byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic-mnamon-ancient-writing-systems-in) SRC [Byblos: first sound value proposal based on external evidence (GEAS news, 1 July 2023)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGR7ECH4T/byblos-first-sound-value-proposal-based-on-external-evidence) SRC [Decifrazione e origine della scrittura 'pseudo-geroglifica' di Biblo](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGECZZS19/decifrazione-e-origine-della-scrittura-pseudo-geroglifica-di) SRC [Detecting word boundaries in an undeciphered script: The Byblos syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGFCJ9NS7/detecting-word-boundaries-in-an-undeciphered-script-the) SRC [Die Byblos-Schrift: Beurteilung des Entzifferungsvorschlags von F. Woudhuizen und J. Best anhand der GEAS-Methodologie](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGQS0Y0KV/die-byblos-schrift-beurteilung-des-entzifferungsvorschlags) SRC [Die hieroglyphische Stele von Byblos. Ein Entzifferungsversuch](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFAH54KMG/die-hieroglyphische-stele-von-byblos-ein) SRC [Déchiffrement des inscriptions pseudo-hiéroglyphiques de Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFAASG0X6/dechiffrement-des-inscriptions-pseudo-hieroglyphiques-de) SRC [Egyptian Hieratic Writing in the Byblos Pseudo-hieroglyphic Stele L](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFVTR04AS/egyptian-hieratic-writing-in-the-byblos-pseudo-hieroglyphic) SRC [How to Decipher the Byblos Script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDG5T4PDHZ/how-to-decipher-the-byblos-script) SRC [Indo-European origin of alphabetic systems and deciphering of the Byblos script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH4DKH1BK/indo-european-origin-of-alphabetic-systems-and-deciphering) SRC [James Hoch (1990) confirmed: Byblos signs and the Egyptian consonant signs (GEAS news, 1 March 2021)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGS16TNCV/james-hoch-1990-confirmed-byblos-signs-and-the-egyptian) SRC [Nouvelles inscriptions pseudo-hiéroglyphiques découvertes à Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFA5TC4KT/nouvelles-inscriptions-pseudo-hieroglyphiques-decouvertes-a) SRC [On the Byblos Script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDG661MR7X/on-the-byblos-script) SRC [Online Corpus of Byblos Inscriptions (OCBI) and Byblos character picker, GEAS decipherment tool](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHBDP14J3/online-corpus-of-byblos-inscriptions-ocbi-and-byblos) SRC [Pseudo-hieroglyphs of Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH1KZKSQZ/pseudo-hieroglyphs-of-byblos) SRC [Review of G. E. Mendenhall, The Syllabic Inscriptions from Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFM1MYAZY/review-of-g-e-mendenhall-the-syllabic-inscriptions-from) SRC [Revision and Reclassification of the Proto-Byblian Signs](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFKH6Q95C/revision-and-reclassification-of-the-proto-byblian-signs) SRC [Roadmap to the SMP (Supplementary Multilingual Plane), revision 17-0-1](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDH5SJSKKH/roadmap-to-the-smp-supplementary-multilingual-plane-revision) SRC [The Byblos Script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGEMHG9CB/the-byblos-script) SRC [The Byblos Syllabary and the Proto-alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFW7YW8WM/the-byblos-syllabary-and-the-proto-alphabet) SRC [The Byblos Syllabary: Bridging the Gap Between Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Semitic Alphabets](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFVFAGQQQ/the-byblos-syllabary-bridging-the-gap-between-egyptian) SRC [The Byblos script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGSJX5VJQ/the-byblos-script) SRC [The Canaanite Syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFWHG6P2W/the-canaanite-syllabary) SRC [The Origin of the Alphabet: An Examination of the Goldwasser Hypothesis](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDG4C61RR1/the-origin-of-the-alphabet-an-examination-of-the-goldwasser) SRC [The Proto-Byblian Inscriptions: A Fresh Approach](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFBRMSBW5/the-proto-byblian-inscriptions-a-fresh-approach) SRC [The Pseudo-Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Byblos, Their Elusive Dating, and Their Affinities with the Early Phoenician Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGEWRK5S4/the-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions-from-byblos-their) SRC [The Syllabic Inscriptions from Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFKRMY1H4/the-syllabic-inscriptions-from-byblos) SRC ## Cite it ``` Mysteries Department. 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