Early Alphabetic Writing at Lachish

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A new inscription from Tel Lachish in southern Israel is the earliest alphabetic writing discovered in the southern Levant.

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Footnotes

1. See Orly Goldwasser, “How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs,” BAR, March/April 2010; Matthieu Richelle, “A Very Brief History of Old Hebrew Script,” BAR, Summer 2020.

Endnotes

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Felix Höflmayer, Haggai Misgav, Lyndelle Webster, and Katharina Streit, “Early Alphabetic Writing in the Ancient Near East: The ‘Missing Link’ from Tel Lachish,” Antiquity 95.381 (2021).