descendants of the Phoenician letters. For the Ancient South Arabian and Libyco-Berber scripts only the letters with Proto-Canaanite correspondences are shown. The Other section shows the corresponding Modern Greek, Etruscan, Latin, Glagolitic, Old Cyrillic, and Cyrillic letters. See also Tell es-Safi inscription Ugaritic alphabet References Further reading Albright, William F. (1966). The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions and their Decipherment. I. Biggs, M. Dijkstra, Corpus of Proto-sinaitic Inscriptions, Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Neukirchener Verlag, 1990. Colless, Brian E., "The Byblos Syllabary and the Proto-alphabet", Abr-Nahrain / Ancient Near Eastern Studies 30 (1992) 15–62. Colless, Brian E., "The Origin of the Alphabet: An Examination of the Goldwasser Hypothesis", Antiguo Oriente 12 (2014) 71–104. Stefan Jakob Wimmer / Samaher Wimmer-Dweikat: The Alphabet from Wadi el-Hôl – A First Try, in: Göttinger Miszellen. Beiträge zur ägyptologischen Diskussion, Heft 180, Göttingen 2001, p. 107–111 Hamilton, Gordon J, The origins of the West Semitic alphabet in Egyptian scripts (2006) Fellman, Bruce (2000) "The Birthplace of the ABCs." Yale Alumni Magazine, December 2000. Goldwasser, Orly, How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs Biblical Archaeology Review 36:02, Mar/Apr 2010. Millard, A. R. (1986) "The Infancy of the Alphabet" World Archaeology. pp. 390–398. Ray, John D. (1986) "The Emergence of Writing in Egypt" Early Writing Systems; 17/3 pp. 307–316. B. Benjamin Sass (West Semitic Alphabets) – In 1988 a very important doctoral dissertation was completed at Tel Aviv University, *Benjamin Sass, The Genesis of the Alphabet and its Development in the Second Millennium BC'', Ägypten und Altes Testament 13, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1988. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195079937/page/89/mode/1up External links Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions (byu.edu) Proto-Sinaitic - 18th-14th cent. B.C., Mnamon Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean Escritura Proto-sinaítica (in Spanish), Promotora Española de Lingüística (Proel). Wadi el-Hol USC West Semitic Research Project site on Wadi el-Hol, with photos Yale news article on Wadi el-Hol from 2000 Dec Archeology article on Wadi el-Hol from 2000 Jan New York Times article on Wadi el-Hol from 1999 Nov BBC article on Wadi el-Hol from 1999 Nov 19th-century BC establishments 1904 archaeological discoveries 2nd millennium BC in Egypt Abjad writing systems Bronze Age writing systems Canaanite languages Canaanite writing systems Middle Kingdom of Egypt Semitic writing systems Sinai Peninsula Undeciphered writing systems