The Alphabet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters that is used to write one or more languages based on the general principle which the letters represent phonemes of the spoken language. The history of the alphabet began in ancient Egypt.The first pure alphabet emerged around 2000 BC in ancient Egypt.Then, alphabetic principles had already been introduced Egyptian hieroglyphs for a millennium (see Middle Age alphabets). 

The Phaistos Disc

The Phaistos Disc is a curious archaeological find, likely dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age.The target of this and even its original geographical place of manufacture, remain discussed, making it one of the most famous mysteries or archaeology.Each disc has a total 241 tokens,including 45 unique signs.

The Greeks

Modern scripts of Europe is the main source of the Greek alphabet with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms and maintains to the present day, the history of the Greek alphabet began.The Phoenician alphabet was rigorously speaking abjad in the other words it represented only consonants.Its classical and modern form,the alphabet has 24 letters,ordered from alpha to omega.

The Romans

Several hundred years later, the Romans used the Greek alphabet as the basis for the uppercase alphabet that we know today.They also corrected the art of handwriting,fashioning several distinctive styles of lettering which they used for different purposes the Roman alphabet consisted only of capital (upper case) letters.The lower case letters developed in the Middle Ages from cursive writing, first as the uncial script,and later as minuscule script.The old Roman letters were retained for formal inscriptions and for emphasis in written documents.