Virginia Cox, a graduate of the New York Art Students League, $500 for her picture book, "ABC: The Story of the Alphabet," which traces the development of the alphabet from its roots in Africa to modern times.
The eventual development of the alphabet was the nail in the coffin of arboreal Eden.
Other highlights are Hittite pottery, Syro-Anatolian luxury goods (jewelry, libation bowls, and cosmetic containers), and a display on the development of the alphabet in Anatolia.
The evolution of the alphabet involved two important achievements.
We focused solely on the time period that pertains to the development of the Hangul alphabet, just in the beginning of the Joseon Dynasty.
After this time the development of the Greek alphabet was almost wholly external, in the direction of greater utility, convenience, and, above all, beauty.
The development of the Hangul alphabet is traditionally ascribed to Sejong, fourth king of the Chosŏn (Yi) dynasty; the system was made the official writing system for the Korean language in 1446 by one of Sejong's decrees.
Both the Uighur and the Tibetan scripts had been in use by the Mongolians prior to the development of the Mongolian alphabet, Uighur before 1272 and Tibetan Pa-sse-pa or 'Phags-pa from 1272 to c. 1310.
The position of Phoenicia, at a junction of both land and sea routes and under the protection of Egypt, favoured this development, and the discovery of the alphabet and its use and adaptation for commercial purposes assisted the rise of a mercantile society.
Studies have found that only 30% of children from low income communities enter kindergarten with the basic language skills necessary for literacy development, such as recognizing letters of the alphabet.
