The study of written matter recorded on hard or durable material; the study of inscriptions from the earliest civilizations through to the present day, their interpretation and classification.
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Examples of Pre-Islamic and Islamic Arabic Inscriptions from 1st Century of Hijra onwards.
Describes use of Unicode for encoding dead and academic scripts.
A study by University College London of all non-Runic early medieval inscribed stones in the British Isles and Brittany. Scope, researchers, and online database.
Online searchable database Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP).
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.
Proposed phonetic translation. Includes bibliography, and images.
Proposes a connection between the Phaistos Disc, the Arkalochorie axe and Linear A.
International Journal for Papyrology and Ancient Epigraphics, covering the full spectrum of ancient texts. The articles are written in the author's languages, including English, German, and French.
The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project. BBC News report.
(May 04, 1999)
A study by University College London of all non-Runic early medieval inscribed stones in the British Isles and Brittany. Scope, researchers, and online database.
Proposes a connection between the Phaistos Disc, the Arkalochorie axe and Linear A.
Examples of Pre-Islamic and Islamic Arabic Inscriptions from 1st Century of Hijra onwards.
Online searchable database Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP).
International Journal for Papyrology and Ancient Epigraphics, covering the full spectrum of ancient texts. The articles are written in the author's languages, including English, German, and French.
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.
Proposed phonetic translation. Includes bibliography, and images.
Describes use of Unicode for encoding dead and academic scripts.
The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project. BBC News report.
(May 04, 1999)
