Writing Quote by A. H. SAYCE

“How the resurrection of Hittites has been accomplished, by putting together the fragmentary evidence of Egyptian and Assyrian inscriptions, of strange-looking monuments in Asia…

— A. H. SAYCE

“The direction in which the characters look determines the direction in which they should be read. This alternate or boustrophedon mode of writing also…

— A. H. SAYCE

“Hettites appeal to us not alone because of the influence they once exercised on the fortunes of the Chosen People, not alone because a…

— A. H. SAYCE

“So, too, we may imagine that the sight of the hieroglyphs of Egypt, and the knowledge that thoughts could be conveyed by them, suggested…

— A. H. SAYCE

“The Hittites, in fact, must be regarded as the first teachers of the rude populations of the West. They brought to them a culture…

— A. H. SAYCE

“Ancient Egypt, like that of the Olmecs (Bolivia), emerged all at once and fully formed. Indeed, the period of transition from primitive to advanced…

— Graham Hancock

“I have read in some of the old histories that in early times the Greeks did not know how to write until two men,…

— Ibn Al-Nadim

“This is a very interesting theory, which, when carried out to its logical conclusion, would connect the Hyksos and Hittites racially with the pre-Hellenic…

— Leonard William King

“Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform.”

— Jared Diamond

“The picture-writing of the Greeks in the pre-Homeric age was derived from a Semitic source, circa second millennium B.C., the type of alphabetic script…

— James John Courtenay

“From Egyptian writing the Phoenicians constructed an alphabet which passed into world-literature ... Herodotus attributes the transliteration of Phoenician letters into the Greek alphabet…

— James John Courtenay

“Hyksos ... have been practically Hittites ... the theory of de Cara, which connects the Hyksos with the Hittites and these with the Pelasgi and Tyrseni.”

— Leonard William King