Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Sunday, March 21, 2010

For those interested

in philology, liguistics and the history of written language...

How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs

Or anyone interested in the Ancient Near East, Egypt and the Nile area, alphabets, hieroglypics, cuneiform, and so on, and so on, and so on, from the pages of Biblical Archaeology Review, an always interesting, and sometimes controversial, publication...


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