With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed. In other words, ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

The knotty question of the origins of our alphabet has been ... excavation of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish led by Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Michael Hasel ...