{"id":16302,"date":"2024-11-24T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=16302"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:10:25","slug":"ancient-mediterranean-alphabets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/24\/ancient-mediterranean-alphabets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Mediterranean alphabets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have always been slightly fascinated by the way a language can move from oral tradition to a written system. Ancient civilizations developed some quite interesting alphabets (because we partially recognize or understand them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of them appears to be well understood even today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldhistory.org\/Greek_Alphabet\/\">The Greek alphabet<\/a> evolved with technology around the Mediterranean sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, It was clearly preceded by older scripts and some of them have not even been translated as of today. From the Bronze Age in Southern Europe and the &#8220;interior sea&#8221;, you would find:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldhistory.org\/Linear_A_Script\/\">Linear A script<\/a>: Used by the Minoan civilization in Crete around 1500 BCE to 1200 BCE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/clay-tablet-with-linear-a-script-17693-600x600.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/clay-tablet-with-linear-a-script-17693-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/clay-tablet-with-linear-a-script-17693-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/clay-tablet-with-linear-a-script-17693-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/clay-tablet-with-linear-a-script-17693-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/clay-tablet-with-linear-a-script-17693.webp 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldhistory.org\/Linear_B_Script\/\">Linear B script<\/a>: Used by the Mycenaean civilization in Crete around 1850 BCE to 1450 BCE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/linear-b-tablet-3394-600x267.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/linear-b-tablet-3394-600x267.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/linear-b-tablet-3394-300x134.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/linear-b-tablet-3394-150x67.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/linear-b-tablet-3394-768x342.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/linear-b-tablet-3394.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I invite you to follow the links to the World Histroy Encyclopedia, which contain very useful information about all these (and other historical data).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been slightly fascinated by the way a language can move from oral tradition to a written system. Ancient civilizations developed some quite interesting alphabets (because we partially recognize or understand them). One of them appears to be well understood even today: The Greek alphabet evolved with technology around the Mediterranean sea. 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