This kind of writing system came thousands of years later, and the story goes that the earliest alphabet—known as Proto-Sinaitic script—developed in the Sinai peninsula, which transformed some ...

Proto-Sinaitic script, which transformed some hieroglyphs into alphabetic letters, emerged in the Sinai Peninsula around 1900 B.C.E. Scholars have long thought that this was when the alphabet was ...

Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a set of alphabetic signs adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphics, is the earliest known system to rely on symbols alone to represent sounds and that could be ...