Word: phoenician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last summer on Mount Sinal by Professors Lake and Blake, proved to the unscholarly listener less interesting than the circumstances under which they were found, than the very fact that they were found and deciphered. To the study of languages is added an important link--a connection between obscure Phoenician characters and Egyptian writings. For a scholar the story which Professor Butin of Catholic University tells of their deciphering must be of absorbing interest, regardless of the trivialties of the actual meaning. To those who make no claim to being scholars, the interest lay in the first hand glimpse into...
These inscriptions found on stone tablets which were hewn from the mountainside by the research-party, were deciphered by Professor Butin and others in Cairo this fall, and have proved fairly conclusive the existence of a definite link between Egyptian hieroghypics and the carliest Phoenician alphabet...
Professor Lake's talk will be based upon his recent scientific expedition to Palestine where studies were made on the famous undeciphered Srabit inscriptions, in an attempt to find the link between the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Phoenician alphabet...
...this book Mrs. Millin untangles the dark pattern of its sound. Going as far back as the legendary days when Phoenician sailors stared at the bleak Cape coasts, and going into the forests where the natives have the roots of their semi-civilization, she has brought to her study of the contemporary situation a wide and valuable background...
...Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead...