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Jan 13, 2026, 8:01 am53 ptsAncient Mesopotamians used pictures of basic objects to preserve and describe their culture. The Phoenicians pivoted from pictures to symbols around 1600 B.C., a harbinger of our modern alphabet. Each symbol represented a spoken sound, but the reader read the symbols from right to left. This…
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