The Phoenician World
The Ancients
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What Is the Phoenician Alphabet?
The phoenician alphabet is really a remarkable kind of amarker of this cultural is right? The greeks adopted in the eighth century, early to men eighth century. And then the etruscans adopted, though they probly adopted through the greeks,. Then the tartasians also adopted, and that's it. Nobody else that we know does this. But they adopt writing as this wave. So this is all part of this wave of alphabetic writing. That is specially picked up by the same culture that emerged from greecetrora, iberia as perhaps the more orientalizing and sophisticated ones. Whereas in north africa, there
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