What do you see in the given pictures, what is it called? What is it significance
in early 19th Century?
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Answer:
In this picture alphabets are written in cursive !
Most of these systems can be traced back to Egypt, where the first archaeological evidence dates from around 1850 BC in the period we know of as the 12th Dynasty (2000–1775 BC). In the Wadi el Hol (‘Terrible valley’) – a shortcut through the desert between Abydos and Thebes – graffiti can be seen on a cliff face that was written by non-native Egyptian speakers, who took elements of Egyptian writing and adapted them to sounds in their own language.
For example, they take an existing hieroglyph, a wavy line that stood for n, (the initial character in nt and nwy meaning ‘water’) and used it instead to stand for the initial sound of their own word for water mayim; it would become our letter m.
Within a century, similar signs are found further north in the Sinai Peninsula.