# 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…

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# 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.

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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[Simplified from the Byblos syllabary (Colless)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/answers/ANS0DEDY98Z411M/simplified-from-the-byblos-syllabary-colless)

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## Sources 3

[On the Origin of Alphabetic Writing](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJB27NQRV/on-the-origin-of-alphabetic-writing)

Wilson-Wright 2019

SRC

[The Origin of the Alphabet: An Examination of the Goldwasser Hypothesis](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDG4C61RR1/the-origin-of-the-alphabet-an-examination-of-the-goldwasser)

Colless 2014

SRC

[The Pseudo-Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Byblos, Their Elusive Dating, and Their Affinities with the Early Phoenician Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGEWRK5S4/the-pseudo-hieroglyphic-inscriptions-from-byblos-their)

Sass 2019

SRC

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