LINGUIST List 16.3360: Liberty Post:: Ancient Alphabet Found

LINGUIST List 16.3360
Tue Nov 22 2005 Media: Liberty Post: Ancient Alphabet Found Editor for this issue: Amy Renaud <renaudlinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Karen Chung, Liberty Post:: Ancient Alphabet Found Message 1: Liberty Post: Ancient Alphabet Found
Date: 18-Nov-2005 From: Karen Chung <karchungntu.edu.tw> Subject: Liberty Post:: Ancient Alphabet Found The Liberty Post Nov 9, 2005 Source: The New York TImes A Is for Ancient, Describing an Alphabet Found Near Jerusalem By John Noble Wilford In the 10th century B.C., in the hill country south of Jerusalem, a scribe carved his A B C's on a limestone boulder - actually, his aleph-beth-gimel's, for the string of letters appears to be an early rendering of the emergent Hebrew alphabet. Archaeologists digging in July at the site, Tel Zayit, found the inscribed stone in the wall of an ancient building. After an analysis of the layers of ruins, the discoverers concluded that this was the earliest known specimen of the Hebrew alphabet and an important benchmark in the history of writing, they said this week. http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=116258 Karen Chung http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/ http://lists.topica.com/lists/phonetics/ Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics Writing Systems Respond to list\|Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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