TY - GEN AB - Traces the development of written communication and the birth of the alphabet from ancient rock and cave paintings, pictures, signs, symbols, cuneiform, hieroglyphs, Chinese systems of writing systems to the Phoenicians, Paleo-Hebrew, Greek and Roman alphabets in about 1400 B.C. AU - Mansoor, Menahem. AU - Schmidt, Karl. CN - P211 CN - P211 CY - Princeton, N.J. : DA - 2004, 1999. ID - 273389 KW - Alphabet KW - Writing KW - Educational television programs. N1 - Originally produced by the University of Wisconsin Instructional Media Development Center in 1996. N2 - Traces the development of written communication and the birth of the alphabet from ancient rock and cave paintings, pictures, signs, symbols, cuneiform, hieroglyphs, Chinese systems of writing systems to the Phoenicians, Paleo-Hebrew, Greek and Roman alphabets in about 1400 B.C. PB - Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PP - Princeton, N.J. : PY - 2004, 1999. T1 - Sign, symbol, scriptorigins of written communications and the birth of the alphabet / TI - Sign, symbol, scriptorigins of written communications and the birth of the alphabet / ER -