The one primeval language : traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents...
Charles Forster's 1851 London volume from Richard Bentley, arguing that ancient inscriptions from four continents descend from a single primeval language, aimed at scholars of Egyptology and Semitic epigraphy. Line facsimiles copy rock-cut Sinaitic graffiti: outline camels, horses, spear-carrying figures and rows of angular unfamiliar letterforms, useful as ready-made petroglyph silhouettes and invented-script textures.
