Phoenician Alphabet Origin - Phoenicians in Phoenicia
phoenician.org › alphabetPhoenician Alphabet Origin. You might imagine that something as simple and basic as the alphabet would have been around forever. But of course it hasn’t. As you may well know, the elaborate pictures of Egyptian hieroglyphics and the intricate reed-poked-into-clay marks of Mesopotamian cuneiform used to be the way people communicated in writing.