This book offers a lighthearted and fascinating voyage back to the origins of our alphabet.
Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet.
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, 1999 - 381 pages