The form of the ancient symbol is significant in itself. Inscribed in the Andes on a tomb wall, and in Tel Qasile Israel on a container once carried there on a Phoenician ship from a distant place called Ophir, the glyph appears to be composed of elements common in the early writing of the Sinai peninsula and, in particular, of the Nabatean people. These written elements, now called "proto-Sinaitic," not only formed the Semitic language that is the forerunner of the later written Hebrew; they also resemble others in the writing of various other cultures that extend across India, the Orient, Oceania, Peru.... Authorities can see some of these elements in the Easter Island script of Rongo-Rongo and in the Brahmi script of South Asia.