In the century since the discovery of those first scratched letters in the Sinai mines, the reigning academic consensus has been that highly educated people must have created the alphabet.

With so many ancient texts around the world, you might wonder which alphabet was the first to be developed ... the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

In other words, what is the oldest confirmed alphabet in the world? Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...