# No cursive, papyrus or administrative alphabetic text of the Middle Kingdom or early New Kingdom has been found; the…

> No cursive, papyrus or administrative alphabetic text of the Middle Kingdom or early New Kingdom has been found; the early texts are votive graffiti and…

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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

# No cursive, papyrus or administrative alphabetic text of the Middle Kingdom or early New Kingdom has been found; the…

No cursive, papyrus or administrative alphabetic text of the Middle Kingdom or early New Kingdom has been found; the early texts are votive graffiti and names.

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

Counts against1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 2

[Goldwasser's First Rebuttal (to Anson Rainey, "Who Really Invented the Alphabet?")](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ9CFNGMD/goldwassers-first-rebuttal-to-anson-rainey-who-really)

Goldwasser 2010

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

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**EVD** 0DEEAVGEC6RA

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