Fresh Meat for the Alphabet People

Discovery of Egyptian Inscriptions Indicates an Earlier Date for Origin of the Alphabet - The news may be five years old, but it's fresh meat for this alphabet person. As usual, thanks to SCW for the link.

I'm currently finishing up The Great Human Diasporas by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. It's an interesting and informative book, though the poor editing is unfortunately distracting. The section on linguistics was eyebrow-raising, but it's good to be reminded that one's field doesn't exist in a vacuum, and to see that it does actually have implications for other sciences.