Writing Systems

Maya glyphs in stucco at the Museo de sitio in Palenque, Mexico

Breakthrough in World's Oldest Undeciphered Writing [proto-Elamite] -- BBC News (22 October 2012)
Ancient Texts Part of Earliest Known Documents -- Discovery News (27 December 2011)
Deciphered Ancient Tablet Reveals Curse of Greengrocer -- Live Science (21 December 2011)
Ancient Texts Tell Tales of War, Bar Tabs -- Live Science (16 December 2011)
UCSB Scholar's Reading of Hieroglyphic Verb Alters Understanding of Mayan ritual texts -- EurekAlert (21 November 2011)
Is mystery of Dead Sea Scroll authors solved? -- MSNBC (22 November 2011)
Mysterious ‘Copiale Cipher’ Cracked -- Past Horizons (28 October 2011)
New project brings more of the Dead Sea Scrolls online -- The Scout Report, 30 September 2011, Volume 17, Number 39
A Rosetta Stone for the Indus Script -- Guardian (30 June 2011)
Pyramid Hieroglyphs Likely Engineering Numbers -- Discovery News (07 June 2011)
Ancient Tablet Bears Writing, to Scientists' Surprise -- Los Angeles Times (02 April 2011)
Ancient Tablet Found: Oldest Readable Writing in Europe -- National Geographic News (30 March 2011)
Dead Sea Scrolls Going Digital on Internet -- Reuters (19 Octobe 2010)

Ancient Mesoamerican

Ancient Mesoam erican Writing -- GBonline
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI)
- The Dresden Codex
- The Grolier Codex
- The Madrid Codex
- The Paris Codex
- Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs -- John Montgomery
GLYPH CATALOG -- The Mayan Epigraph Database Project, Rafael C. Alvarado
The Maya Calendar -- MATHS for EUROPE
The Maya Codices -- Vail, Gabrielle, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 35: 497-519 (Volume publication date October 2006) DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123324
The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project -- Rafael C. Alvarado
- Glyph Images
Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing -- N.A.F. McNelly
Maya Writing -- MichielB
Mesoamerican Writing Systems -- Kevin L. Callahan
- Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, Aztec, Similarities and Differences
Vail, Gabrielle. The Maya Codices. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 35: 497-519 (Volume publication date October 2006) DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123324
Your Name in Glyphs -- N.A.F. McNelly

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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Carvings From Cherokee Script’s Dawn -- New York Times (22 June 2009)
Dead Sea Scrolls Going Digital on Internet -- Reuters (19 Octobe 2010)
Etched ostrich eggs illustrate human sophistication -- BBC News (02 March 2010)
New Written Language of Ancient Scotland Discovered -- Discovery News (31 March 2010)
Oldest 'writing' found on 60,000-year-old eggshells -- New Scientist (03 March 2010)
‘Rock art’ reveals language of ancient Scotland -- MSNBC (31 March 2010)