In 1916, Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner published a transcription and translation of letters found on a sphinx from Serabit el-Khadim.
Sources
- Who Invented the Alphabet? (smithsonianmag.com)
- http://www.codex99.com/typography/11.html (codex99.com)
- https://www.world-archaeology.com/world/africa/egypt/object-lesson-serabit-sphinx/ (world-archaeology.com)
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/3853586 (jstor.org)
- https://ia600809.us.archive.org/31/items/AlbrightTheProtoSinaiticInscriptionsAndTheirDecipherment1969/Albright%20-%20The%20Proto-Sinaitic%20Inscriptions%20and%20Their%20Decipherment%20(1969).pdf (ia600809.us.archive.org)
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