The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around ... everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood, the ...

Hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt originally started as a pictographic ... The claim that Aboriginal peoples lacked a written language is a misrepresentation borne of colonial agendas, designed ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but a discovery in a tomb in Syria challenges that narrative.