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To: SunkenCiv
"Orly Goldwasser, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explained how the very first alphabet, from which all other alphabets developed, was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in the turquoise mines..."

Um...I would think everybody was illiterate until somebody invented an alphabet...

12 posted on 08/31/2010 8:00:55 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

LOL! Great point!


13 posted on 08/31/2010 8:08:09 PM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: Joe 6-pack

I guess pictogram decoders were the literate people of that time.


14 posted on 08/31/2010 8:09:53 PM PDT by Moose Burger
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To: Joe 6-pack

Thanks Joe 6-pack (for all your replies here, starting with #12)!


25 posted on 09/01/2010 6:52:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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