Earliest Forms to Modern Latin Script - youtube

see also

• Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city - Alphabet 2,400 BCE
  • Many cultures never invent writing. From well-known 1969 research on 186 pre-industrial societies - 0 - 39.2%: No writing
    • 37.1%: Pictures only
    • 23.7%: Writing

Wooden structures 476,000 BCE
Sailing 100,000 BCE
Drawing 73,000 BCE
Counting 60,000 BCE
Medicine 40,000 BCE
… Writing 3,200 BCE
Alphabet 2,400 BCE