# Writing in the Bronze Age was a skill of trained elites, and the Wadi el-Hol texts sit beside Egyptian inscriptions of…

> Writing in the Bronze Age was a skill of trained elites, and the Wadi el-Hol texts sit beside Egyptian inscriptions of organised expeditions that…

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[Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic)Evidence

Evidence · Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet

# Writing in the Bronze Age was a skill of trained elites, and the Wadi el-Hol texts sit beside Egyptian inscriptions of…

Writing in the Bronze Age was a skill of trained elites, and the Wadi el-Hol texts sit beside Egyptian inscriptions of organised expeditions that included Asiatics under an Egyptian commander.

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## 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[Literate Semites in Egyptian service (Rainey, Rollston, Hamilton)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/answers/ANS0DEDY8ZN88Z3/literate-semites-in-egyptian-service-rainey-rollston)

Supports1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 2

[The Probable Inventors of the First Alphabet: Semites Functioning as rather High Status Personnel in a Component of the Egyptian Apparatus](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMFHMXVQQ/the-probable-inventors-of-the-first-alphabet-semites)

Rollston 2010

SRC

[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

SRC

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