Writing Systems

In the News . . .

• The Rosetta Stone: The real ancient codebreakers -- BBCCulture (26 September 2022)
  
  
• Grolier Codex: 13th Century Maya Document Is Legit, Says Study -- Science 2.0 (07 September 2016)
  
  
• Emoticons in Ancient Egypt -- ScienceDaily (30 August 2016)
  
  
• Hidden codex may reveal secrets of life in Mexico before Spanish conquest -- Guardian (21 August 2016)
  
  
• Discovering Discovery: Chich’en Itza, the Dresden Codex Venus Table and 10th Century Mayan Astronomical Innovation -- J of Astronomy in Culture (15 August 2016)
  
  
• An Ancient Mayan Copernicus -- UC Santa Barbara (16 August 2016)
  
  
• Ancient Logbook Documenting Great Pyramid's Construction Unveiled -- LiveScience (18 July 2016)
  
  
• Dead Sea Scrolls Still Conceal Many Stories -- ScienceNordic (06 July 2016)
  
  
• Revealing the Mysteries of the Maya Script -- Phys.org (02 November 2015)
  
  
• The Earliest Known Abecedary -- Phys.org (22 October 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Script Spurs Rethinking of Historic ‘Backwater’ -- National Geographic News (16 September 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Mayan Tablet with Hieroglyphics Honors Lowly King -- LiveScience (2015-08-05)
  • Photos: A Mayan Stone Tablet-- LiveScience (2015-08-05)
    
    
• Deciphering of Mayan glyph sheds light on culture -- ScienceDaily (22 July 2015)
  
  
• Archaeologists Find Intact Maya Hieroglyphic Panels and Well-Preserved Stela -- Past Horizons (18 July 2015)
  
  
• Reviving the Iban Alphabet -- ScienceDaily (15 May 2015)
  
  
• Aztec App Brings Historic Mexico Codex Into the Digital Age -- ABC News (15 January 2015)
  
  
• The Ancient Maya Meet the Modern Internet -- Washington Post (20 May 2013)
  
  
• 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)

Other

• 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)

• The writing on the cave wall -- NewScientist (17 February 2010)