This book contain is a comprehensive guide to the origins of the
alphabet, exploring its existence in ancient Greece, Egypt, and Samaria.
Laurence Austine Waddell (1899 - 1938) was a British Explorer, professor
of Tibetan, and Indian army surgeon. Other notable works by this author
include: "Among the Himalayas", "The Birds of Sikkim" (1893), and "Some
Ancient Indians Charms from the Tibetan" (1895). Contents include:
"Ancestry of the Alphabets Re The Phoenicians", "Alphabet Letters in
Pre-Dynastic and Early-Dynastic Egypt and Theories Thereon", "How the
Sumerian Origin of the Alphabet was Discovered", "The So-Called 'Aphonic
Owner's Mark", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly
scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing
this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete
with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.