Sinaitic Inscriptions

Also called �Proto-sinaitic Inscriptions, � archeological remains that are among the earliest examples of alphabetic writing; they were inscribed on stones in the Sinai Peninsula, where they were first discovered in 1904 - 05 by the British archaeologist Sir William Flinders Petrie. Apparently influenced both by Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and by the Canaanitic writing system (1900 - 1800 BC; probably ancestral to the North