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

The Byblos inscriptions have no secure archaeological date and may be Iron Age, eight alphabetic letters have no…

The Byblos inscriptions have no secure archaeological date and may be Iron Age, eight alphabetic letters have no Byblos counterpart, and the Byblos script is itself undeciphered.

Suggestive0

What it means

Key questionWho invented the alphabet, and could they read Egyptian?

4 answers, none ahead yet

Openunchanged

Answer this evidence bears onSimplified from the Byblos syllabary (Colless)

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

Still possiblewas No evidence yet

Sources 3

On the Origin of Alphabetic Writing

Wilson-Wright 2019

SRC

The Origin of the Alphabet: An Examination of the Goldwasser Hypothesis

Colless 2014

SRC

The Pseudo-Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Byblos, Their Elusive Dating, and Their Affinities with the Early Phoenician Inscriptions

Sass 2019

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). The Byblos inscriptions have no secure archaeological date and may be Iron Age, eight alphabetic letters have no… [Evidence EVD0DEEAWATAYJG]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAWATAYJG

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  title     = {The Byblos inscriptions have no secure archaeological date and may be Iron Age, eight alphabetic letters have no…},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEEAWATAYJG},
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