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Why every alphabet in the world shares the same secret

From Egyptian hieroglyphs to the Phoenician alphabet, the history of writing is really a story of radical compression, fewer symbols carrying more meaning across greater distances. The hidden logic ...
It was previously believed that the Levantine DNA of the Phoenicians spread as far as their famous alphabet, which influenced quite a few languages. DNA analysis of individuals buried in what used to ...