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  2. Roman graffiti - Wikipedia

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    Inscriptions cover a range of topics from poems, advertisements, political statements, to greetings. There are two forms of graffiti: painted inscriptions (usually public notices) and inscribed inscriptions (spontaneous messages). Many forms of graffiti also give insight to what certain locations acted as during the Roman Empire.

  3. List of oldest documents - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.

  4. Nabataean script - Wikipedia

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    Nabataean Arabic inscription from Umm al-Jimal in northern Jordan.. The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards.

  5. Epigraphy - Wikipedia

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    Epigraphy (from Ancient Greek ἐπιγραφή (epigraphḗ) 'inscription') is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers.

  6. Maya script - Wikipedia

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    Maya inscriptions were most often written in columns two glyphs wide, with each successive pair of columns read left to right, top to bottom. Mayan writing consisted of a relatively elaborate and complex set of glyphs, which were laboriously painted on ceramics, walls and bark-paper codices, carved in wood or stone, and molded in stucco. Carved ...

  7. Old Turkic script - Wikipedia

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    The script is named after the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia where early 8th-century inscriptions were discovered in an 1889 expedition by Nikolai Yadrintsev. [2] These Orkhon inscriptions were published by Vasily Radlov and deciphered by the Danish philologist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1893. [3] This writing system was later used within the Uyghur Khaganate.

  8. Tengwar - Wikipedia

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    Tengwar "atul" element recurring in the ring inscription. The Tengwar script was probably developed in the late 1920s or in the early 1930s. The Lonely Mountain Jar Inscription, the first published Tengwar sample, dates to 1937. [3] The full explanation of the Tengwar was published in Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings in 1955. [4]

  9. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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    An American sampler: "Margaret Barnholt her sampler done in the twelth [sic] year of her age 1831". English band sampler featuring 'boxers', c. 1650 A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching produced as a 'specimen of achievement', [1] demonstration or a test of skill in needlework.

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