Greek Alphabet artwork
World History Encyclopedia

Greek Alphabet

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  • April 17th 2020

Greek Alphabet, written by Cristian Violatti and narrated by Richard de Man: https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Alphabet/

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The Greek alphabet is the writing system developed in Greece which first appears in the archaeological record during the 8th century BCE. This was not the first writing system that was used to write Greek: several centuries before the Greek alphabet was invented, the Linear B script was the writing system used to write Greek during Mycenaean times. The Linear B script was lost around c.1100 BCE and with it, all knowledge of writing vanished from Greece until the time when the Greek alphabet was developed.

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