Can Lebanon repeat Solidarity's legacy?
6th Sep 2005, 23:29 GMT
Some 3,000 years ago, in the Late Bronze Age, the scribes of the city-state of Byblos, in modern Lebanon north of Beirut, developed an alphabetic phonetic script that became our modern alphabet. In the process, local developments in a city on the coast of Lebanon ultimately changed world history, by providing a standardized means of communicating and recording events and transactions.
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