Archaeologists at work excavating the biblical city of Lachish, where an early 12th century BCE Canaanite alphabet inscription was found in 2014. (courtesy of Yossi Garfinkel, Hebrew University) ...

High-resolution photography at the turquoise mines of Serabit el-Khadem in Egypt’s south-central Sinai Peninsula highlighted ...

The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs found at a number of Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, according to a new analysis.

He combined earlier identifications of some letters in the ancient alphabet with his own interpretation of disputed letters create the 'Hebrew 1.0' script He found names of three biblical figures ...

Another member of the team, P Kyle McCarter said it was a "Phoenician type of alphabet that is being adapted" - and as such a transitional abecedary. If the inscription is confirmed as a sample of ...

Teaching Biblical Hebrew ... First I teach the alphabet, then the vowels, the other markers like the daggesh, before moving on to nouns—two genders, and the verbs, ...

The discovery of this early Hebrew alphabet has proved controversial to scholars who dispute the dates Petrovich has for the Israelites' stay in Egypt – 430 years to the very day, as recorded in ...