The Proto-Sinaitic script — also known as Proto-Canaanite or Old Canaanite — is a Middle Bronze Age writing system discovered at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is widely regarded as the common ancestor of the Paleo-Hebrew, Phoenician, and South Arabian scripts, and by extension, of most historical and modern alphabets.

The invention of the first alphabet was nothing less than revolutionary.

Whether it arose by accident, deliberate design, or through influences now lost to history may never be known. What is certain is its consequence: humanity gained a durable means of recording thought, experience, discovery, and achievement.

Knowledge no longer vanished with a generation.

Progress could accumulate.

Civilization could build upon itself.

The alphabet marked the beginning of accelerated intellectual advancement.

“Aleph to Taw” is a shorthand expression meaning from the beginning to the end.

The stories presented here unfold somewhere within that span.

They are chronicled by Malaki-z, The Historian of It All — a figure who exists everywhere and at all times, observing past and present alike. The future remains beyond his sight, for it has not yet come into being.

Malaki-z seeks out and records the universe’s most relevant and compelling accounts.

His collected works are cataloged and archived by the Histropedia Institute. Many remain confidential and unavailable for public review.

Malaki-z has no connection to the Prophet Malachi of biblical history and predates him considerably.