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Alphabetic scripts widened writing networks

c. 1050-500 BCE · Levant and Mediterranean

Consonantal alphabets used in the Levant traveled through commerce and state contact, contributing to Greek and later script families without replacing older writing systems.

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How the setting appeared

Short inscriptions appeared on stone, pottery, metal and perishable writing surfaces across ports and inland centers.

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How people lived

Literacy remained uneven and often specialized; oral poetry, law and memory continued beside inscriptions.

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How people worked

Scribes, merchants and craftspeople adapted signs to different languages and materials.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Sacred inscriptions were one use among administrative, funerary and ownership texts.

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Historical geography

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CIT-GLOBAL-MET-ASSYRIA

Assyria to Iberia: Art and Culture in the Iron Age

https://resources.metmuseum.org/resources/metpublications/pdf/Assyria_to_Iberia_Art_and_Culture_in_the_Iron_Age.pdf

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-BRITISH-MIDDLE-EAST

Department of the Middle East

https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/middle-east

The British Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-GLOTTOLOG

Glottolog language-family catalogue

https://glottolog.org/

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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