# The Wadi el-Hol inscriptions, in the same script, sit among Egyptian inscriptions of the late Twelfth Dynasty, so the…

> The Wadi el-Hol inscriptions, in the same script, sit among Egyptian inscriptions of the late Twelfth Dynasty, so the alphabet existed about 1850-1800 BC.

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# The Wadi el-Hol inscriptions, in the same script, sit among Egyptian inscriptions of the late Twelfth Dynasty, so the…

The Wadi el-Hol inscriptions, in the same script, sit among Egyptian inscriptions of the late Twelfth Dynasty, so the alphabet existed about 1850-1800 BC.

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## What it means

Key question[When were the Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions written: in the Middle Kingdom, about 1850 BC, or in the New Kingdom?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW70ERVE3/when-were-the-serabit-el-khadim-inscriptions-written-in-the)

4 answers, none ahead yet

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Answer this evidence bears on[Middle Kingdom, c. 1850-1800 BC](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/answers/ANS0DEDXXCK1RS5/middle-kingdom-c-1850-1800-bc)

Supports2 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 2

[Theban Desert Road Survey in the Egyptian Western Desert, Volume 1: Gebel Tjauti Rock Inscriptions 1-45 and Wadi el-Hol Rock Inscriptions 1-45](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHWDTTKK8/theban-desert-road-survey-in-the-egyptian-western-desert)

Darnell et al. 2002

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[Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-Hol: New Evidence for the Origin of the Alphabet from the Western Desert of Egypt](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHW700H66/two-early-alphabetic-inscriptions-from-the-wadi-el-hol-new)

Darnell et al. 2005

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