Mesopotamian and Egyptian writing goes Back much further than that, and while the alphabet has it’s origin in he Phonician sea peoples, it didn’t become widespr

Mesopotamian and Egyptian writing goes Back much further than that, and while the alphabet has it’s origin in he Phonician sea peoples, it didn’t become widespread through Europe and Central Asia until the Greek empire a thousand years later. Alphabet like writing systems have been prominent for less than half of written history, hence recent.