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World's oldest ALPHABET is discovered: Ancient 4,400-year-old text is found on clay cylinders from a tomb in Syria - and it upends everything we thought we knew about the origin of writing
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| 21 November 2024
| JONATHAN CHADWICK
Posted on 11/21/2024 2:19:40 PM PST by george76
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:19:40 PM PST
by
george76
To: george76
I'm waiting for Linear A.
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:23:29 PM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
To: george76
BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:24:44 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Quit minoan-in about the length of the wait...
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:25:32 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: dfwgator
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:28:52 PM PST
by
hflynn
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:29:32 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
To: george76
“For decades, it’s been a common belief that the Ancient Egyptians were responsible for the very first alphabet. “
Pure BS. Must be a woke education...
To: george76
Gilgamesh was a pansy! Istar’s rites are female rights!!!
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:34:24 PM PST
by
Liaison
(TANSTAAFL)
To: george76
A Catholic priest I know who spent many years in Lebanon was also a linguist (knew 15 languages, from Arabic and Hindi through Quecua, Gaelic, Hebre and Esperanto. He said Mass in Latin.) told me that the Syrians believe their version of Aramaic was the original language(the one that Adam and Eve spoke). He chuckled lightly as he recounted it.
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:34:59 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
To: george76
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:35:56 PM PST
by
avital2
To: george76
six skeletons, gold and silver jewelry,
I wish they had shown some of that as well.
To: hflynn
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:39:33 PM PST
by
shadeaud
(God gave us the free will and intelligence to choose right from wrong. Use it or lose it!D)
To: george76
Before there was Ovaltine there was Maypo.
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:39:40 PM PST
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: Dr. Sivana
I thought the traditional belief was that Hebrew was the language of Adam and Eve because Eber (great-grandson of Shem and ancestor of the Hebrews) did not join the others in building the Tower of Babel. But I don't think there is anything in the Bible to support that tradition.
The alphabet was a very important invention, but the earlier versions (consonants only) were more like memory aids. The Greek invention of vowels greatly improved the alphabet as a way of expressing one's thoughts.
To: Openurmind
Usually the Canaanites/Phoenicians are credited with inventing the alphabet, but some of their symbols may have been taken from Egyptian characters.
To: george76
To: Openurmind
Agreed.
Pictographs are not alphabets.
To: Verginius Rufus
Mesopotamia was before those. And the Indus Valley Harappan Script was before them.
To: george76
I’m glad they use the “BC” time scale.
Also, I don’t think we’ll ever see recorded (written) history earlier than the Biblical time scale.
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posted on
11/21/2024 2:53:24 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: T. Rustin Noone
“Pictographs are not alphabets.”
I’m not talking about pictographs.
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