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c. 3200 BCE

Hieroglyphic script developed in Egypt.
2000 BCE

Minoan hieroglyphic script is invented.
1700 BCE

Minoan Linear A script.
c. 1600 BCE

Canaanite alphabet.
c. 1400 BCE

Ugaritic alphabet of 30 letters is invented.
1100 BCE

Phoenician alphabet.
c. 1000 BCE

Death of Ahiram (or Ahirom) of Byblos, whose sarcophagus bears the oldest inscription of the Phoenician alphabet.
800 BCE

Earliest examples of Greek alphabetic script.
c. 350 CE - c. 950 CE

Estimated use of the Ogham in Ireland and southwestern England.