Ancient Scripts: Home:(Site with some introduction to different writing systems and group them into origins/types/families/regions/timeline/A to Z) Michael Everson's Alphabets of Europe; The World’s Writing Systems, catalogue of 294 writing systems, each with a typographic reference glyph and Unicode status; Deseret Alphabet

Jan 30, 2023 · From The Epic of Gilgamesh to the Hymn to Inanna of Enheduanna to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Analects of Confucius, the Mahabharata and Bhagavad-Gita, the Aeneid of Virgil as well as the trade agreements, correspondence, and other works written by the people of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Greece, India, Rome, and all the other cultures ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that writing was invented by the god Thoth and called their hieroglyphic script "mdju netjer" ("words of the gods"). The word hieroglyph comes from the Greek hieros (sacred) plus glypho (inscriptions) and was first used by Clement of Alexandria.

Before the 20th century, most scholarly theories of the origins of writing involved some form of monogenesis, [6] the assumption that writing had been invented only once as cuneiform in ancient Sumer, and spread across the world from there via cultural diffusion. [7]

Feb 6, 2025 · Among the earliest writing systems are cuneiform, hieroglyphs, and the Indus script, each of which emerged independently in different parts of the ancient world. These systems not only reflect the ingenuity of their creators but also provide invaluable insights into the cultures that produced them.

Cuneiform [note 1] is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. [3] The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. [4] Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form their ...

Mar 17, 2025 · The oracle bone script is one of the oldest writing systems that is directly related to a modern written language. Dating back to around 1250 BCE — but most likely was first used much earlier — oracle bone script represented Archaic Chinese, which is the oldest attested stage of the Chinese language.

Ancient Scripts refer to the early forms of writing systems used in various regions such as Asia, Egypt, and South and Southeast Asia. AI generated definition based on: Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition), 2006

Script is the written expression of a language. Cuneiform, the first script, was invented in Sumer, Mesopotamia c. 3500 BCE, hieroglyphics sometime prior to the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt (c. 3150-2613 BCE), and Sanskrit in India during the Vedic Period (c. 1500 to c. 500 BCE).

Jan 17, 2025 · Explore the intricate world of deciphering ancient scripts, uncovering their significance and challenges while delving into major writing systems like Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform.