Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

The knotty question of the origins of our alphabet has been ... excavation of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish led by Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Michael Hasel ...