Mysteries of the Alphabet

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1998
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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 and left their trace on our alphabet.

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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 and left their trace on our alphabet.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 381
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Published: 18 Nov 1998
ISBN 10: 0789205238
ISBN 13: 9780789205230

Mysteries of the Alphabet

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