What was Flinders Petrie's ground-breaking identification in 1905?
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Answer
In 1905, Flinders Petrie was the first to identify the Proto-Sinaitic script, which is the ancestor of the Phoenician alphabet and, thus, of the alphabets of the Western world. He made this discovery after finding inscriptions on potsherds in the Wadi el-Hol in Egypt.
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