The proto-Sinaitic script seems to have been influenced by ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, but "the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet is clearly a very innovative creation," she wrote; ...

That alphabet, called Proto-Sinaitic, is based on hieroglyphic symbols repurposed as letters. The new finding suggests instead that people in farther-flung reaches of the Near East experimented ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.

Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a set of alphabetic signs adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphics, ... The symbols did not resemble Mesopotamian cuneiform or Egyptian hieroglyphs, the main writing ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but a discovery in a tomb in Syria challenges that narrative.

Understanding Egyptian hieroglyphics took the lucky 1799 find of the Rosetta Stone, ... Then, he says he intends to tackle the next summit of ancient writing system codebreakers: Proto-Elamite.

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.