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3. TIME LINE
Wadi el-Hol inscriptions Luxor in upper Egypt, Egyptologists have found limestone inscriptions that they say are the earliest known examples of alphabetic writing, in a Semitic script with Egyptian influences, has been dated between 1900 and 1800 B.C. The first experiments with alphabet thus appeared to be the work of Semitic people living deep in Egypt HEBREW 1000 BC Hebrew flourished as a spoken language in Israel from the 10th century BC. Afterward Hebrew continued as a literary language until the Modern Era. when it was revived as a spoken language in the 19th century.
This picture shows many carved texts sitting on shelves. This is in a museum in Turkey. But some texts were found in libraries of clay tablets, where they found a shelf full of intact texts, with the catalog list at the front of the shelf. The index list told archaeologists what tablets were missing from the shelf. Obviously the archeologists were amazed to dig up complete libraries of carved clay.
