
by Marc - Alain Ouaknin (Author)
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.
                        Format:  Hardcover
                         Pages: 381
                        Edition: illustrated edition
                        
                        
                        Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. 
 Published: 18 Nov 1998
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        ISBN 10:  0789205238
 ISBN 13: 9780789205230