Daily Mail

How illiterate miners invented the alphabet: Canaanite labourers in ancient Egypt transformed intricate hieroglyphs into simple letters 4,000 years ago, inscriptions reveal

The alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in ancient Egypt who turned elaborate hieroglyphs into basic letters 4,000 years ago, a study claimed. In 2006, Egyptologist Orly Goldwasser ...
The Sunday Times

From Brahmi script to modern Sinhala alphabet

Nimal Herath, an engineer by profession, has now written a book on ‘epigraphy’, the study of inscriptions. How he moved from engineering to archaeology, particularly to paleography, is a matter of ...
Arutz Sheva

First sentence ever to be found written in Canaanite language discovered at Tel Lachish

The alphabet was invented around 1800 BCE and was used by the Canaanites and later by most other languages in the world. Until recently, no meaningful Canaanite inscriptions had been discovered in the ...
Hindustan Times

Letter writers in Arunachal Pradesh: Crafting a script for a tribal tongue

Three decades after a Tangsa tribal painstakingly created an alphabet and script for his tribe’s language, it will now be taught in schools. “Maung” could mean dream, unconscious or corpse, in Tangsa, ...