In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed the resolution, and by December 1999, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Foundation was accepting design proposals.
Which best explains why the Phoenician alphabet was developed? to aid in land conquests to help trade transactions to educate the government to stop foreign invasions.
The inscriptions of Wadi el-Hol, which are one of the first example of alphabetic writing from which will come the Phoenician one, was carved between 1900 and 1800 b.C. on a rocky wall along a military and trade road linking Abidos and Thebes in the Kings valley.