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.

The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

Posted: February 28, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025 Photoshop CC tutorial showing how to carve Egyptian hieroglyphics and custom text into a subterranean, stone wall.