# Orly Goldwasser 2006: Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Horus is Hathor? The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai

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# Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Horus is Hathor? The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai

Orly Goldwasser, 2006.

**Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet** Articledoi: **[10.1553/AEundL16s121](https://doi.org/10.1553/AEundL16s121)** 0

## What it's used for here

Ägypten und Levante 16: 121-160. The full statement of the thesis that Canaanite workers who could not read Egyptian invented the alphabet at Serabit el-Khadim in the late Middle Kingdom by naming hieroglyphic pictures in their own language.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[The script ignores Egyptian sound values and the Egyptian uniconsonantal signs, and uses several look-alike…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEEARRD3VH3/the-script-ignores-egyptian-sound-values-and-the-egyptian)

Evidence

EVD

[Orly Goldwasser argues that Canaanite workers who could not read Egyptian invented the alphabet in Sinai; Hamilton publishes the sign catalogue](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/events/EVT0DEDS10QWBKF/orly-goldwasser-argues-that-canaanite-workers-who-could-not)

EVT

[Semitic-speaking workers at the Sinai turquoise mines leave inscriptions in the new script at the temple and at Mines L and M (date disputed)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/events/EVT0DEDRMNAFCY8/semitic-speaking-workers-at-the-sinai-turquoise-mines-leave)

EVT

[Orly Goldwasser](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/people/FIG0DEDQAQ6N4YE/orly-goldwasser)

FIG

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

The mystery article

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[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)

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## Cite it

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Orly Goldwasser (2006). Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Horus is Hathor? The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai. https://doi.org/10.1553/AEundL16s121
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