"The Chinese began using pictograms, pictures standing for words, around 5000 B.C. Egypt was another home of early writing; its hieroglyphs were a combination of characters and pictograms. The oldest known date from 3400 to about 3200 B.C.
Some time around 1000 B.C. the Phoenicians came in contact with the ancient Greeks, who absored and adapted the Phoenician alphabet and gave it a name, drawn from the 1st 2 letters of the Greek alphabet alpha and beta. The Greeks passed it in to the Etruscans, who handed it on the Romans, Who delivered it to the rest of us."
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