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SUMMARY:The Origins of the Alphabet and How It Spread Across the World
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture by Professor Wayne T. Pitard \nAbstract:\nEssentially all of the alphabetic scripts in the world descend from a single script invented probably during the 20th century BCE by a Canaanite in the southern Levant. This lecture will provide a tour of the extraordinary development of the alphabet from its beginnings to its eventual spread across the Mediterranean and the world. We will examine the script’s origin and how the signs were conceptualized by their creator(s). We will look at the alphabet’s extension\, first across the eastern Mediterranean where it developed into the distinctive Ugaritic\, Phoenician\, Hebrew\, and Aramaic scripts\, and then moved southward into the Arabian Peninsula\, where it evolved into the Arabic system. Then we will examine how the early alphabet\, which only expressed consonants\, was revolutionized by the Greeks\, who began using some of the letters as vowels. We will follow the development of the Greek alphabet into both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets that exist throughout Europe and much of northern Asia. Finally\, we will touch upon the spread of the Arabic alphabet across northern Africa and eastward into India\, and the Latin alphabet’s movement to the Americas and parts of southern Africa during the European colonial period of the 15th-20th centuries. All of this has made the alphabetic writing system the most widespread method of writing in the world.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-origins-of-the-alphabet-and-how-it-spread-across-the-world-2/
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SUMMARY:Sweden and the Baltic: A Story Told Through Trade - An International Archaeology Day Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The Archaeology Committee is honored to welcome Ambassador von Uexküll\, Sweden’s Deputy Representative to the United Nations\, to our International\nArchaeology Day Celebration\, exploring how trade has shaped integration\, prosperity\, and identity in Sweden and across the Baltic Sea region. \nFrom Viking voyages to Hanseatic dominance\, commerce has long connected cultures around the Baltic and beyond. During Sweden’s Age of Great Power (Stormaktstiden)\, trade routes became strategic assets though efforts to control them often failed. \nGlobal transactions later fueled the Industrial Revolution and continues to influence politics. From ancient customs to modern cooperation\, trade remains a defining force in the region’s history – and its future.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/sweden-and-the-baltic-a-story-told-through-trade/
LOCATION:National Arts Club\, Gramercy Park South\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:International Archaeology Day
ORGANIZER;CN="Michele Kidwell Gilbert":MAILTO:archaeology@nacnyc.org
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