The birthplace of the alphabet in ancient Egypt
In 1905, archaeologists at Serabit el-Khadim in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula uncovered mysterious inscriptions carved into the walls of a 4,000-year-old turquoise mine. The strange symbols, later called Proto-Sinaitic, puzzled scholars for decades, until they realised they were looking at the earliest alphabet in history.
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