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Writing is a discovery of the Babylonians (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Writing systems and writing media 11 Language, communication, libraries and education 11.02 Writing systems and writing media	Keywords scripts
Period 9th century CE Byzantine Empire	Channel Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
Synkellos, Chronographia 117:
There are those who more recently claim that writing was a discovery of the Babylonians, and from Chaldea was transmitted by Abraham to the earliest Phoenicians; and it was from the Phoenicians that the Greeks acknowledge having acquired it.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Synkellos, Chronographia 117

Bibliography

Adler and Tuffin 2002, 145

Adler, W. and P. Tuffin. The Chronography of George Synkellos. A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation translated with introduction and notes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Amar Annus

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