The National Gallery <a href=" http://imogenlloydwebber.com/category/blog/#experiment ">target extreme cream</a> The origins of the alphabet were not the inspiration of a lively minded Neolithic girl, but are to be found on a graffiti-covered cliff face near Wadi el-Hol in Upper Egypt. These ancient inscriptions represent the seeds from which alphabetic writing sprang, broadcast across the globe by merchants, armies and their bureaucrats and scribes, many of whom would have been slaves.