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Linear Elamite, a writing system used in what is now Iran, may reveal the secrets of a little-known kingdom bordering Sumer
From 2000BC Oracle bone script to simplified modern day script
One of the rarest & most beautiful of all ancient scripts, here shown in its typographically finest form: this is the Avestan script, developed in the 3rd and 4th century AD to write Zoroastrian scripture. From Westergaard's "Zendavesta", the first complete edition, 1852-4. 1/3
Asian and African Studies have just uploaded more than 15,000 images of Persian manuscripts online. This is the result of two years' work in an ongoing project sponsored by the Iran Heritage Foundation together with the Bahari Foundation, the Barakat Trust, the Friends of the British Library, the Soudavar Memorial...
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Type design pages for George Douros. Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts. Type design information compiled and maintained by Luc Devroye.
Kristian Kabuay is a Filipino-American artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who has taken it upon himself to push for the continued resurrection of Baybayin, a little-known indigenous script writing system from the Philippines that pre-dates Ferdinand Magellan’s “discovery” of the archipelago in the 1500s. Unlike Japanese or Chinese calligraphy, the ancient Philippine script was derived from Brahmic scripts of India, which is why it has a distinctively different look from Chinese characters or Japanese Kanji. After the Philippines adopted Western characters, Baybayin was faced with certain extinction, its use whittled down to only one remote village tribe using the script at its most critical point.
2. Language A very limited number of languages are attested from before the Bronze Age collapse and the rise of alphabetic writing: The Sumerian, Hurrian, Hattic and Elamite language isolates, Afro-Asiatic in the form of the Egyptian and a number of ancient Semitic languages, Indo-European (Anatolian languages, Mycenaean Greek and traces of Indo-Aryan), and Sino-Tibetan […]
Kristian Kabuay is a Filipino-American artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who has taken it upon himself to push for the continued resurrection of Baybayin, a little-known indigenous script writing system from the Philippines that pre-dates Ferdinand Magellan’s “discovery” of the archipelago in the 1500s. Unlike Japanese or Chinese calligraphy, the ancient Philippine script was derived from Brahmic scripts of India, which is why it has a distinctively different look from Chinese characters or Japanese Kanji. After the Philippines adopted Western characters, Baybayin was faced with certain extinction, its use whittled down to only one remote village tribe using the script at its most critical point.
SPIRITUAL GNOSIS IS CONVEYED TO INITIATES VIA MEDIUMS OF SYMBOLS/ART/MOTIFS/GLYPHS/SIGILS/ALPHABETS AND IMAGERY, THESE DIVINATORY TOOLS ANCIENT AND MODERN ARE BROADCASTERS OF TELEPATHIC INTELLECTUAL EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL DATA, THE ASTRAL PLANES AND ESOTERIC REALMS WORK SYMBOLICALLY, THEY ATTUNE THE MIND OF THE ADEPT INTO ANCIENT SPIRITUAL FORUMS OF HUMANITY AND THE ANGELICAL ORIGIN OF ENSOULED BEINGS WITH LIKENESSES WITH ANIMAL DIVINITIES - OMNISCIENCE DEIFICATION DIVINATION ENSOULMENT
A Vermont-based writer is cataloguing rare scripts that are disappearing due to political conflicts and globalization.
1760个甲骨文字检索表S
Resonance in Paleo-Sanskrit Texts from Illinois
Hittite was an Anatolian language spoken in central parts of Anatolia (modern day Turkey) until about 1,100 BC.
