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November 11, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/international/middleeast/09alphabet.html

A is for Ancient, Describing an Alphabet Found Near Jerusalem

(New York Times) John Noble Wilford - In the 10th century BCE, in the hill country south of Jerusalem, a scribe carved his A B C's on a limestone boulder - actually, his aleph-beth-gimel's. Archaeologists digging in July at Tel Zayit found the inscribed stone in the wall of an ancient building and concluded that this was the earliest known specimen of the Hebrew alphabet.

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