The origins of the alphabet have intrigued human curiosity since ancient times. Herodotus, the “Father of History” who lived in the fifth century B.C., informs us that the knowledge of writing was brought to Greece by the Phoenicians and a certain legendary person named Kadmos. There was a consensus among ancient historians that the Greeks had learned the alphabet from the Phoenicians, but opinions differed as to the origin of the Phoenicians’ knowledge of writing.