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Big mess

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One sentence reads "excavations at Nuzi and Tell el-Khaleifeh in the Sinai, where the earliest alphabet was found." Very messy and confusing:

  1. Nuzi (at least the one wikilinked) is in Mesopotamia, nowhere close to the Sinai.
  2. Tell el-Khaleifeh = Tell el-Kheleifeh? If yes, please add the wikilink.
  3. Tell el-Kheleifeh isn't in the Sinai Peninsula either, but at the southern end of the Arabah. Close, but not quite there. If that's what is meant, please amend.
  4. Neither Nuzi, nor Tell el-Kheleifeh have anything to do with the earliest alphabet. Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai and Wadi el-Hol in continental Egypt do. Just one big confusion? Or did someone remove Serabit from the list, and Sinai is an orphaned half-info making no sense anymore? Was Serabit excavated by Harvard? Less likely, but maybe Wadi el-Hol was? Arminden (talk) 21:51, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]