Mysteries of the Alphabet: The Origins of Writing by Marc-Alain Oauknin, Marc-Alain Ouaknin

Mysteries of the Alphabet: The Origins of Writing

Marc-Alain Oauknin, Marc-Alain Ouaknin with Josephine Bacon (Translator)

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nonfiction reference challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia an...

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