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Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-Hol: New Evidence for the Origin of the Alphabet from the Western Desert of Egypt

John Coleman Darnell, F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Marilyn J. Lundberg et al., 2005.

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Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 59: 63-124. The full publication of the two Wadi el-Hol inscriptions with photographs, drawings, sign-by-sign discussion and the Middle Kingdom (c. 1850-1800 BC) dating from the surrounding Egyptian inscriptions.

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John Coleman Darnell, F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Marilyn J. Lundberg, P. Kyle McCarter, & Bruce Zuckerman (2005). Two Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from the Wadi el-Hol: New Evidence for the Origin of the Alphabet from the Western Desert of Egypt. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3768583
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