handwriting penmanship
Next to the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols 'cuneiform' is the earliest example of writing which developed around 3200 BC and had derived form the Sumerian pictographic system found on clay tablets.
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The first known alphabet, however, came from the Phoenicians around the 12th century. It was a vowel-less system of 22 letters. The Greeks eventually adapted the Phoenician alphabet by adding vowels and omitting other redundant letters developing a script around the 8th century BC that we have come to know as the capital Greek letters used in university fraternities.
handwriting penmanship
Next to the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols 'cuneiform' is the earliest example of writing which developed around 3200 BC and had derived form the Sumerian pictographic system found on clay tablets.
Copyright © 2010 Tomitheos Photography - All Rights Reserved
The first known alphabet, however, came from the Phoenicians around the 12th century. It was a vowel-less system of 22 letters. The Greeks eventually adapted the Phoenician alphabet by adding vowels and omitting other redundant letters developing a script around the 8th century BC that we have come to know as the capital Greek letters used in university fraternities.