| Archeography: Ancient Scripts and the Development of Writing Descent of Semitic and Indo-European Alphabets |
| General Resources 2700 year old seal found at Tel Hebron inscription saying "Le'Melech Hevron" Ancient Hebrew Research Center |
| Alphabet Tables |
| Letter Geometry |
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| Sumerian & Akkadian Cuneiform | Egyptian Hieroglyphics | Proto-Sinaitic | Proto-Phoenician Proto-Canaanite Proto-Hebraic | Phoenician | | ARAMAIC SCRIPTS |
| Ugaritic (& similar cuneiform scripts) |
| Western Semitic Syllabic |
| Archaic Syriac Syriac |
| Greek | Estruscan Latin Paleo-European Modern European |
| Nabatean Archaic Arabic Modern Arabic |
| Punic |
| Persian, Turkish, others Modern Persian, others |
| Mandean, others |
| Hebraic Modern Hebraic |
| Paleo-Hebraic | Samaritan |
| Southern Arabian Classic Ethiopic Modern Amharic |
| Palmyrian |
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| chart & timeline data source: Mysteries Of The Alphabet by Marc-Alain Ouaknin |
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| General Timeline Of Alphabet Development Egyptian (3000 BCE) Proto-Sinaitic (1500 BCE) Proto-Phoenician (1300 BCE) Paleo-Phoenician (1100 BCE) Phoenician or Paleo-Hebraic (1000 BCE) Greek (800 BCE) Etruscan (800-700 BCE) Latin (600 BCE) The Modern Alphabet (3rd century CE - the invention of printing) |
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