The Romans and the Alphabet of Rome

The etruscan civilization was firmly intrenched in northwestern italy, and with a new alphabet for writing their language. So we can now turn our attention back to the early settlee to the south, which was slowly emerging as the city of rome. The etruscans wrote sentences in both directions, left to right, and right to left. But they preferred to it from right to left, like the original phoenicians and the early greeks had done. It's not untilwe get to the romans that we finally see a consistent change to the left to right style of writing that we use to day.