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The Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium B. #MostDiscussed #ClassicalGreeceAndRome #Greece #WritingSystems #Archaeology #VisualArts https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/1002

Most Discussed 📖 - Phaistos Disc

Ceri Ashward, Author May 19

Mapping My Writing Life: A Look Inside the Creative Atlas System

Today I want to share a look at the writing systems I’ve been building, and how they all work together under what I call my Creative Atlas System. On the surface, it might look like I’m juggling a lot of projects at once. In practice, it’s a structured way of rotating between different types of creative work depending on focus, energy, and curiosity for the day. Instead of staying locked into a single project, I move through different modes of writing—some days for deep novel work, […]

https://ceriashwardauthor.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/mapping-my-writing-life-a-look-inside-the-creative-atlas-system/

Hacker News Apr 1

An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode

https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tutorial/part2

#HackerNews #WritingSystems #Unicode #Tutorial #Linguistics #TechEducation

An Introduction to Writing Systems

The tutorial will provide you with an understanding of key requirements for implementing writing systems in information technology. It will do this by examining real examples of a wide range of modern scripts to discover features that a computerized implementation must support.

Michel Mariani Mar 29

An excellent "Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode" and its "Large character sets", by Richard Ishida @ri

https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tutorial/part2

#Unicode #WritingSystems #CharacterSets #r12a

Omni Letters Feb 24

A new study suggests that symbols engraved on artifacts up to 40,000 years old in Europe may have been precursors to the earliest writing systems.

#Archaeology #AncientHistory #Prehistory #EarlyWriting #OriginsOfWriting #WritingSystems #RockArt #AncientSymbols #ArchaeologicalDiscovery #ScientificStudy #HumanEvolution #AncientEurope #40000YearsOld #HistoryMysteries #AncientCivilizations #Antiquity #ScienceAndHistory #RecentResearch #CulturalHeritage

Marks from 40,000 years ago may be a precursor to writing

A new study suggests that symbols engraved on artifacts up to 40,000 years old in Europe may have been precursors to the earliest writing systems.

Omni Letters

Sanjay Mohindroo Feb 4

Writing direction shaped trust, power, and time. Leaders who see it lead across cultures with calm authority. #WritingSystems #CulturalIntelligence #Leadership #GlobalThinking #Communication #History #Trust #SanjayKMohindroo
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/direction-thought-sanjay-k-mohindroo--72gwc

The Direction of Thought.

Writing direction shaped culture, power, time, and trust—long before meetings, borders, or modern leadership ever existed.

letterspace.amsterdam Jan 20

World Endangered Writing Day
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Friday, January 23rd
10:00am to 6:00pm UTC+0/GMT
https://endangeredwriting.com
@Endangeredalphabets
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With Pippa Steele, Peter Constantine, Mohamed Pujeh, Sign and Symbol Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Adam Yeo, Ariq Syauqi, Roland Huse, Iris Auda, Kambai Akau, Tim Brookes, Yanru Xu and Amalia Gnanadesikan.
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#EndangeredLanguages #EndangeredAlphabets #WritingSystems #Linguistics #Symposium #MinotiryScripts

Weekend Stories Jan 1

I recently watched a #Arte documentary exploring whether all humans once shared a single ancestral #language. I decided to recap its key points as a follow-up to my series on the origins of languages and #WritingSystems from last year:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/evolution_of_language_follow_up/

#WeekendStories #Linguistics #LanguageEvolution #LinguisticHistory