Full Description
Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet.
Contents
Part I Origin and evolutionideograms and phonograms; the turquoise woman - Protosinaic pictograms; the example of the letter Aleph; how Aleph became Alpha. Part II The alphabet. Part III The revolution of archaeography.
