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What is one of the scripts Flinders Petrie identified as being descended from Proto-Sinaitic?

  • Mayan script

  • Sumerian script

  • Egyptian script

  • Almost all alphabetic scripts

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Almost all alphabetic scripts are descended from Proto-Sinaitic, which is a proto-writing system from the Sinai Peninsula that dates back to around the 19th century BCE. Proto-Sinaitic was written from right to left, and it is believed to be the ancestor of the Phoenician alphabet, which is the ancestor of most modern alphabets.
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