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Phoenician traders spread the alphabet

1050 BCE · Lebanon, Asia · Technology

The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad that was used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. It was one of the first alphabets, attested in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found across the Mediterranean basin.

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