Ancient alphabet

Borrowing from the Phoenecian alphabet and the Minoan linear syllabary, the classical “Eucledian” Greek alphabet helped advance Greek literature and science (Greek symbols are still used by modern scientists and mathematicians). The modern Greek language still uses a derivative of the classic alphabet, not the latin script most other European languages adopted.

Ancient and Mystic Alphabets

Aramaic (ארמית, Arāmît): The Aramaic alphabet was adaptaed from the Phoenician alphabet during the 8th century BC and was used to write the Aramaic language until about 600 AD. The Aramaic alphabet was adapted to write quite a few other languages, and developed into a number of new alphabets, including the Hebrew square script and cursive script, Nabataean, Syriac, Palmyrenean, Mandaic, Sogdian, Mongolian and probably the Old Turkic script. (...)

Chapter 3 - The First Writing, Story of The World Today we read chapter 3 which was a short chapter on the earliest people to use writings, i.e. the Egyptians and Sumerians. The girls then cut out the relevant lapbooking piece from The Chronicles of the Earth blog. They had to write something in both hieroglyphs and cuneiform into a little fold over matchbook. I printed out the heiroglyph alphabet from here Heiroglyph Chart and each girl then wrote something for the other person to decipher…

it's greek to me ....

symbols of Egypt

A chart showing the Enochian alphabet translated into the Roman Alphabet which was used as Golem language in Terry Pratchett's novel Making Money.

Greek Alphabet

ANCIENT ALPHABET