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🗿✨ Behold, the #revelation of an ancient #script that allegedly unveils the dawn of writing -- because apparently, everything you learned was wrong. 🧙‍♂️📜 New Scientist has cracked the code, or maybe just cracked, and now we're all supposed to be enlightened. ⚡️📚
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2524042-a-lost-ancient-script-reveals-how-writing-as-we-know-it-really-began/ #ancientwriting #NewScientist #historyofwriting #enlightenment #HackerNews #ngated

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words

New Scientist

Hacker News May 12

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2524042-a-lost-ancient-script-reveals-how-writing-as-we-know-it-really-began/

#HackerNews #ancientwriting #lostscript #historyofwriting #linguistics #archaeology

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words

New Scientist

Tom Elliott May 1

Michael Hahn (LMU) takes the podium at #MATW2026 with "Empire and individual on sherds of clay": https://dmratzan.github.io/2026-nyu-lmu-materialities/papers.html#hahn

> The paper investigates the eastern desert between the Nile and the Red Sea in the Roman Imperial era as a laboratory for examining the relationship between empire and individual through the materiality of writing. Its central evidence consists of inscribed ostraca, mostly recovered from Roman military forts, quarries, and desert waystations.

#ancientHistory #ancientGeography #archaeology #classics #RomanEmpire #ancientWriting #ostraka #epigraphy #papyrology

Abstracts

The online program for the 2026 New York University-Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 2026 workshop on the Materialities of Ancient Texts, April 30-May 1, 2026.

NYU-LMU Materialities of Ancient Texts Workshop 2026

Tom Elliott Apr 30

And now at #MATW2026 we've heard from #ISAWNYU doctoral student Christina Stefanou on the topic "Re-materializing the Alphabet: Embodied and Material Entanglements in Phrygian Writing Practice(s)": https://dmratzan.github.io/2026-nyu-lmu-materialities/papers.html#stefanou

#ancientHistory #archaeology #epigraphy #Phrygians #ancientWriting

Abstracts

The online program for the 2026 New York University-Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 2026 workshop on the Materialities of Ancient Texts, April 30-May 1, 2026.

NYU-LMU Materialities of Ancient Texts Workshop 2026

DB 🌱💦Apr 30

The quest to decipher the 4,000-year-old writing system of Linear Elamite had long been considered impossible to crack.

"Of all the writing systems used in Iran, the only one that is truly local – developed within the territory we now call Iran – is Linear Elamite."

#AncientHistory #AncientWriting #IranHistory #Archeology
https://www.france24.com/en/french-researcher-cracks-4-000-year-old-script-from-iran

French researcher cracks 4,000-year-old Elamite script from Iran

The 4,000-year-old Linear Elamite script from what is now Iran has long eluded archaeologists hoping to unlock the secrets of a near-forgotten age. French archaeologist François Desset's work on deciphering the writing system now has some comparing him to Jean-François Champollion, the famed philologist who deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

FRANCE 24

Fumiferus Dec 14

Dans la famille des tablettes antiques, je demande... (le fils ! Ah non zut c'est pas ce jeu là).

Voici un pendentif inspiré des tablettes en argile sumériennes, écriture cunéiforme (Mésopotamie)

https://fumiferus.etsy.com/listing/4421516385

#pyrography #woodburning #woodart #ancientart #ancienttablets #cuneiform #mesopotamia #ancienthistory #archeology #claytablets #ancientwriting #earlywriting #ancientcivilizations #historyinspired

Hacker News Sep 23, 2025

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet

https://discoveringegypt.com/egyptian-hieroglyphic-writing/egyptian-hieroglyphic-alphabet/

#HackerNews #EgyptianHieroglyphs #AncientWriting #LanguageHistory #EgyptCulture

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet

Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet translator write your name like an Egyptian

Discovering Ancient Egypt

kgadams Mar 2, 2025

#ubergeekkellysworld #blogging #wordpress #ancientwriting #old

https://www.kgadams.net/sitenews/happy-wordpress-anniversary

Happy WordPress Anniversary?!

I've been doing something akin to 'blogging' on the Internet for quite a few years. I don't have an exact date that I started and the definition of 'blogging' is kind of tenuous. But my notes indicate that I began sharing my thoughts and opinions on the web sometime around 1998 or 1999. Every once [...]

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