May
17
/ 2018
A studious ancient Egyptian may have been trying his hand at learning not one, but two different languages some 3,400 years ago. New research on a limestone tablet found near Luxor suggests that it may have the oldest known example of the ancient precursor to the Roman alphabet sequence on one side of the artifact and the first few letters of another ancient alphabet on the other side. Thomas Schneider, a professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia, told Live Science that if he is correct his findings "would be the first historical attestation of 'our' alphabet sequence." Schneider deciphered the text on one side of the tablet and published his results in the
