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The oldest alphabet, carved in Egypt
The earliest evidence of the alphabet appears carved in the cliffs of Wadi el-Hol in Egypt, dating to the early eighteenth century BCE.
Pictures became letters.
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These signs were pictographic in form and acrophonic in function: each picture stood for the first sound of the word it depicted.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 68
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