Origin period start year places a script in the era when it first came into use. Wikipedia notes the Greek alphabet "has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC," making it one of the oldest alphabets still in active use. Browsing by origin period shows how old a given writing system really is.
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In the Middle Bronze Age, an apparently alphabetic system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script appeared in Egyptian turquoise mines in the Sinai Peninsula c. 1840 BC, apparently left by Canaanite workers.
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