G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph ...

yet they were simpler than the beautiful pictorial Egyptian script on the temple walls. The Petries recognized the signs as an alphabet, though decoding the letters would take another decade ...

SAN ANTONIO — The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes. Israelites living in Egypt ...

Learn why Egyptian hieroglyphs are hiding in modern alphabets—and how to find them. Almost all the letters of the Latin alphabet are derived from the hieroglyphs that the Canaanites of Serabit ...

This is according to an archaeologist who has spent the past four years piecing together the letters of the alphabet from inscriptions on Egyptian tablets. In his controversial theory, Dr Douglas ...

around 1800 BCE these workers decided to adapt the 1,000-odd Egyptian characters into phonetic symbols and essentially invented our alphabet, says Goldwasser. Thus, Aleph, today the first letter ...

They continued until they had 27 letters — enough to represent ... Their inscriptions didn't follow the format of Egyptian writing, nor did they import any sounds or meanings from the earlier ...