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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.
Hittite cuneiform is an adaptation of the Old Assyrian cuneiform of c. 1800 BC to the Hittite language and was used from the 17th until approximately the 13th century BC. More or less the same system was used by the scribes of the Hittite Empire for two other Anatolian languages , namely Luwian (alongside the native Anatolian hieroglyphics ...
Hieroglyphic Luwian monumental inscriptions, Cuneiform Luwian tablets in the Hattusa archives [27] Isolated hieroglyphs appear on seals from the 18th century BC. [27] c. 1400 BC: Hattic: Hittite texts CTH 725–745: c. 1300 BC: Ugaritic: Tablets from Ugarit [28] [29] c. 1250 BC: Old Chinese: Oracle bone and bronze inscriptions from the reign of ...
The goal of encoding Maya hieroglyphs in Unicode is to facilitate the modern use of the script. For representing the degree of flexibility and variation of classical Maya, the expressiveness of Unicode is insufficient (e.g., wrt. the representation of infixes), so, for philological applications, different technologies are required.
Cuneiform, one of the oldest forms of writing, was used across the ancient Middle East. Cuneiform recorded Sumerian, Akkadian, and other languages of Mesopotamia, the region where the world’s ...
This article cites its sources but its page reference ranges are too broad or incorrect. Please help in adding a more precise page range. (July 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Survey of eight prominent scripts (left to right, top to bottom): Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Maya script, Devanagari, Latin alphabet, Arabic alphabet, Braille Part of ...
This tiny 4,000-year-old cuneiform tells a big story about past civilizations. ... Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major ...
Two scripts are well attested from before the end of the 4th millennium BC: Mesopotamian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs were employed in three ways in Ancient Egyptian texts: as logograms (ideograms) that represent a word denoting an object visually depicted by the hieroglyph, as phonographs denoting sounds, or as ...