>>18139673
The earliest Phoenician comes from around the 10th century BC, based on older datings. Those dates were never revised to include the Bronze Age Collapse. The earliest Greek inscriptions come from only a few decades after.

But there's plenty of reason not to believe it came from Phoenician. The Greeks thought it came from Cadmus who eventually rules Phoenicia, but his family is Greek itself. He eventually lives in Thrace, and he had some connection to Anatolia- both of those things are in Ovid and Apollodorus. The Latin script is clearly based on a Doric script of Greek more than any other version of Greek which you can tell by the 'x' having been adopted from it.

Of course, the epicenter from a cultural view is that writing had to have emerged somewhere in the Balkans. The proof is in the spread of the language. Phoenicians had ports and sailors but not terrestrial explorers, so we need a good explanation of how the alphabet transferred into places like the Alps and central Asia. Phoenicia as an origin never made much sense but was quickly adopted by semitists of the early 20th and late 19th centuries.

>>18126868
>Writing only arrived in Europe in the Middle Ages
You do know Greeks and Latins are in Europe right? I think you meant northern Europe, but that's still incorrect.