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Contains Maya glyphs
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Naxi script (pictograms)
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"Of special significance are early inscriptions, which form a valuable reference in the study of the origins of the early Georgian alphabet."
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Yagul: "a few of these bear hieroglyphic inscriptions" (wiki)
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Temple of Inscriptions
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Turkic Period (7th-9th c. CE): "To this period, also, belong a number of runic inscriptions." (AB ev)
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The introduction of Thamudic writing, probably about 3000 years ago, is documented in thousands of inscriptions (AB ev)
See en.wikipedia.org
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Runic Script "Prominent among the 20 or more runestones of Southern Öland is the Karlevi stone, with a unique skalde poem in the dróttkvaett verse foot, commemorating a man called “Sibbe the wise”. - nomination file
See en.wikipedia.org
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There are Libyc and Tifinagh inscriptions (ancient and recent Tuareg/Berber script). Tifinagh, which often accompanies images, is a later Lybico-Berber script still used by modern Tuareg.
See africanrockart.org
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Oracle bone script, "the oldest member and ancestor of the Chinese family of scripts" (wiki)
See en.wikipedia.org
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many texts in Lycian and Greek, including several bilingual texts that are useful in the decipherment of Lycian
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Source of more than 16000 cuneiform tablets
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The inscriptions are an invaluable source of epigraphic understanding concerning the development of alphabetic writing. (nom file p.12)
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From the Advisory body evaluation "Epigraphic traces of the pre-Nabataean period remain,and consist of some fifty inscriptions in Lihyanite script,which is specific to northern Arabia," and its conclusion "Through its epigraphy, the site bears testimony to the presence of many ancient languages over the course of history: Lihyanite, Talmudic script, Nabataean, Greek and Latin. It is of outstanding interest for the study of the origins and development of later Arabic languages and scripts."
See www.mnh.si.edu
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The Hittites used cuneiform letters. Archaeological expeditions have discovered in Hattushash entire sets of royal archives in cuneiform tablets, written either in Akkadian, the diplomatic language of the time, or in the various dialects of the Hittite confederation (wiki)
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oldest Quipu
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Byblos is also directly associated with the history and diffusion of the Phoenician alphabet. (AB ev)
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Runic script
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Ezana Stone (written in Ge'ez (the ancient Ethiopian language), Sabaean (South Arabian) and Greek)
See en.wikipedia.org
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Libyan, Punic, Greek, Roman inscriptions at the site led to the decipherment of the Libyan language
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Numerous tablets found around the Minoan palaces include texts in Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A and Linear B. Only Linear B is partially deciphered.
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"(...) the Tanguts developed a civilisation based on the Chinese imperial model, of which Buddhism was an essential part. This is evidenced by very large, diverse architectural sites, as well as a wealth of objects excavated at the property, including fragments of stelae in Tangut script." (AB ev)
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extensive corpus of pre-Arabic scripts (AB ev)
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Several hieroglyphic inscriptions
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Rongorongo script
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Early 8th-century Turkic memorials to Bilge Khan and Kul Tigin with their Orkhon inscriptions are admittedly the most impressive monuments from the nomadic Göktürk Empire.
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Montealban - Zapotec Hieroglyphs
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Maes Howe - one of the largest, and most famous, collections of runes known in Europe.
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Runic script
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Various hieroglyphs, such as at the Southern Ballcourt: "Overlooking this scene is the death deity who rises from a vat of liquid, perhaps pulque. The glyphs above the deity identify it with the planet Venus." (wiki)
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"(...) hard evidence for dynastic kingship at A'ali and identification of the tombs of two named kings, using cuneiform inscriptions recovered from one of the mounds (Royal Mound 8)." (AB Ev)
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Includes hieroglyphic texts
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Inscription in Elamite, Babylonian and Old Persian
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Champollion came here and developed some of the ideas which led to his decipherment of the script
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The Sabaean people used an ancient Semitic tongue of their own, Sabaean or Himyaritic, which are what Ethiopian is based on. ... They left behind many inscriptions in the monumental ancient South Arabian script or Musnad, as well as numerous documents in the related cursive Zabūr script. (wiki) + "evidenced by numerous historical wall inscriptions" (AB ev)
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King Ramkamhang's Inscription - Early Thai Alphabets
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Sigiriya Graffiti, early Sinhala writing system
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Indus Valley scriptures (one of the oldest in the world)
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the centralized control of resources and surplus which gave rise to the first writing system and administrative archives (nom file). The earliest texts known were found in Uruk.
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Slavic writing culture (and early Cyrillic alphabet)
