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- African Writing Systems - Professor Ayele Bekerie introduces the various writing systems of Africa including Ancient Egyptian, Meroitic and Ethiopic. Petroglyphs, pictographs, syllabic and alphabetic types.
www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Welcome.html
- Akkadian Cuneiform - John Heise explains the cuneiform writing system on clay tablets, the language, the grammar. Some texts examples with transliteration and explanation are presented. Bibliography.
saturn.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian
- American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy - A non-profit organization whose purpose is to further research in, and the teaching of, Greek and Latin epigraphy in North America. The Society fosters collaboration in the field and facilitates the exchange of scholarly research and discussion, both in the public forum and in published form.
asgle.classics.unc.edu
- British Epigraphy Society - An independent 'chapter' of the Association Internationale d'Epigraphie Grecque et Latine. Aims, constitution, committee, events, news, jobs and prizes.
www.csad.ox.ac.uk/BES
- Browsing the Memory of the World - Describes use of Unicode for encoding dead and academic scripts.
titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/papiuc11.htm
- Celtic Inscribed Stones - A study by University College London of all non-Runic early mediaeval inscribed stones in the British Isles and Brittany. Scope, researchers, and online database.
www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp
- Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies - Research facility for the study of Greek and Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in the United States. Its purpose is to foster the study of inscriptions and manuscripts and promote research opportunities for those interested in these primary sources of information for the ancient and medieval world.
omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/epigraphy
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) - Represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium.
cdli.ucla.edu
- Earliest Writing Found - The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project. BBC News report.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_334000/334517.stm
- Iberian Epigraphy - Jesús Rodríguez Ramos discusses and illustrates the languages and writing systems of Spain and Portugal, including Celtiberian and Sudlusitanian-Tartessian, with selected bibliography.
www.webpersonal.net/jrr
- Inscriptions from the Land of Israel - Project of the University of Virginia to create a searchable database of all the inscriptions from Israel from c.330 BC to 614 AD. Inscriptions from Beth She'arim currently available.
www.iath.virginia.edu/mls4n
- LacusCurtius: Latin Inscriptions - Bill Thayer's photographs and transcriptions of Etruscan and Roman inscriptions, arranged as a list for researchers and a self-paced course in Latin epigraphy for students.
www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/Inscriptions/home.html
- Phaistos Disc - Ole Dagen argues that this inscription from Minoan Crete is a calendar. Includes drawings of both faces of the disc.
www.gvdnet.dk/~hagen/phaistos.htm
- Picturing the Past - Researcher Tom Malzbender has invented a tool that lets scholars see ancient inscribed texts in ways never before possible. Illustrated article from Hewlett-Packard Labs.
www.hpl.hp.com/news/2000/oct-dec/3dimaging.html
- Roman Inscriptions of Britain - Roman expert Guy de la Bédoyère has made available on-line the texts from the standard work 'Roman Inscriptions of Britain', vol.1.
www.bedoyere.freeserve.co.uk/RIB.htm
- The Oriental Institute and Epigraphy - The epigraphic survey of this institute of the University of Chicago was founded in 1924 and continues to record inscriptions and decoration on Ancient Egyptian monuments.
www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/EPI/Epigraphy.html
- U.S. Epigraphy Project - Aims to gather and distribute information about ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions preserved in the USA. Index of published ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions in the USA. Collections, databases.
usepigraphy.rutgers.edu
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