# The script ignores Egyptian sound values and the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs, and uses several look-alike…

> The script ignores Egyptian sound values and the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs, and uses several look-alike hieroglyphs for one letter, which fits…

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# The script ignores Egyptian sound values and the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs, and uses several look-alike…

The script ignores Egyptian sound values and the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs, and uses several look-alike hieroglyphs for one letter, which fits inventors who saw pictures rather than read them.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[Who invented the alphabet, and could they read Egyptian?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/questions/QST0DEDW7RNZZQM/who-invented-the-alphabet-and-could-they-read-egyptian)

4 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Non-literate Canaanite workers (Goldwasser)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/answers/ANS0DEDY8E0R19P/non-literate-canaanite-workers-goldwasser)

Supports1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 3

[Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Horus is Hathor? The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHWX0987P/canaanites-reading-hieroglyphs-horus-is-hathor-the-invention)

Goldwasser 2006

SRC

[The Miners Who Invented the Alphabet: A Response to Christopher Rollston](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ6H344AD/the-miners-who-invented-the-alphabet-a-response-to)

Goldwasser 2012

SRC

[Who Really Invented the Alphabet?](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK6BTZ8SE/who-really-invented-the-alphabet)

Sanders 2023

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The script ignores Egyptian sound values and the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs, and uses several look-alike… [Evidence EVD0DEEARRD3VH3]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEARRD3VH3
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**EVD** 0DEEARRD3VH3

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