Field Notes

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Letters from the archive table — dispatches on the artists, places, paper, and ephemera behind every Egypt Print Club envelope.

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Did modern writing as we know it begin in Egypt?

Long before the alphabet found its way to Phoenician traders and Greek tablets, something quieter happened in the turquoise mines of Sinai. A worker scratched a sign into stone and meant it to mean a sound.

May 8, 2026 · 3 min read

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