Synopsis
A fresh look at the origins of writing and the alphabet.
This book traces how signs spread across Egypt, Crete, Asia Minor, and the Iberian world, challenging old theories and offering a broader view of early scripts.
Starting from the general position of alphabets, the work examines how signs moved through trade and land contact, how a core group of signs became common property, and why Phoenician is not the whole story. It presents a wide field of signs older than the familiar Graeco‑Phoenician world and explains how later alphabets grew from these beginnings.
- See how early signs were used for multiple purposes and shared across cultures
- Learn how new alphabets emerged from a mix of Libyan, Egyptian, Iberian, and Mediterranean forms
- Understand why some signs survived while others faded with time
- Follow the historical argument that invites fresh charting of alphabet origins
Ideal for readers of ancient scripts and the history of writing, this edition invites a broad view of how our letters came to be.
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