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Barry Powell should have listened to his grammar school teacher. It was the Phoenicians who invented the alphabet.
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Barry Powell should have listened to his grammar school teacher. It was the Phoenicians who invented the alphabet.
I would make the startling suggestion that the alphabet was invented by a single human being, who created this remarkable technology to record the Greek hexameters of the poet we call Homer.
Even after many years of digging, Troy remains full of surprises. No wonder each season the ancient mound attracts scientists working in many disciplines all over the world.