The Serabit Inscriptions in light of the Wadi El Hol

During the quest of an ancient road located in the west part of the Nile in the Sahara, Egyptologists have discovered inscriptions that may have been examples of the earliest alphabet in the world. While they were studying ancient travel roads in the south-west part of Egypt during the 1994-95 field season of the Theban Desert Road Suvey, Dr. Darnell and his wife, Deborah, made this discovery at Wadi el-Hol. Their discovery was a key …

…and for economic and religious incentives. Implicitly, The Semitics involved in the invention of the alphabet might have been part of an ancient population of foreign workers in Egypt Finally, Semitics brought the idea of an alphabet with them in Egypt and the inscriptions of Wadi el-Hol seem to be the oldest alphabet in the world that may have serve as a basis for the development of other languages in the same area. .Word count: 902