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A Cool Guide to the Evolution of the Alphabet

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A Cool Guide to the Evolution of the Alphabet

Cool GuidesEnglish · 8 months ago

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Any idea why they apparently reversed the orientation of all characters between 500 BC and 1 AD?
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  I was going to guess the printing press … because the letters have to be reversed in order to stamp them onto the sheet … but that doesn’t happen for another thousand years

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