We are now one week into the New Year, so I consider it is time to clear out the holiday cobwebs and start our brains functioning fully again. My After Christmas Musings last week were an attempt to get you back into the process gently. …
Evidence For The Patriarchs Nuggets
The Key which Unlocked the Alphabet was the Serabit Sphinx
I told you in the last Nugget that the key that clinched the theory for Sir Alan Gardiner was the discovery of a unique bilingual inscription on a small sphinx with the meaning of the inscription left in a two parallel texts – one Egyptian …
The Serabit Alphabet and the Link Between Ancient and Modern Languages
As I have demonstrated in past Nuggets, the Canaanite alphabet discovered at Serabit El-Khadem was the bridge between ancient pictographic writing systems and the beginnings of phonetic based scripts we are familiar with in the writing systems of languages of the world today. The Cuneiform …