Sir William and Hilda Flinders Petrie, a married couple of Egyptologists, first excavated the temple at Serabit el-Khadim in 1905.
Sources
- Who Invented the Alphabet? (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://cojs.org/serabit_el-khadem/ (cojs.org)
- https://the-past.com/review/travel/the-temple-of-hathor-at-serabit-el-khadim/ (the-past.com)
- https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/excavations/1904-05-serabit-el-khadim-sinai (egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk)
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/first-written-record-of-semitic-alphabet-from-15th-century-bce-found-in-egypt/ (timesofisrael.com)
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