> The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared across societies, and what that could mean for early urban civilizations, according to the researchers.

Alphabets were made to make writing more available to people? I doubt that very much!! The earliest records that we know about show accounting records, probably for taxing purposes. The alphabet was probably a way to make taxing easier for the taxman.

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