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British Epigraphy Society
An independent 'chapter' of the Association Internationale d'Epigraphie Grecque et Latine. Aims, constitution, committee, events, news, jobs and prizes.
http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/BES/
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Celtic Inscribed Stones
A study by University College London of all non-Runic early medieval inscribed stones in the British Isles and Brittany. Scope, researchers, and online database.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/
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African Writing Systems
Professor Ayele Bekerie introduces the various writing systems of Africa including Ancient Egyptian, Meroitic and Ethiopic. Petroglyphs, pictographs, syllabic and alphabetic types.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Welcome.html
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Inscriptions from the Land of Israel
Project of the University of Virginia to create a searchable database of all the inscriptions from Israel from c.330 BC to 614 AD. Inscriptions from Beth She'arim currently available.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mls4n/
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Picturing the Past
Researcher Tom Malzbender has invented a tool that lets scholars see ancient inscribed texts in ways never before possible. Illustrated article from Hewlett-Packard Labs.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2000/oct-dec/3dimaging.html
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Browsing the Memory of the World
Describes use of Unicode for encoding dead and academic scripts.
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/papiuc11.htm
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Cuneiform Tablet Collection Catalogue
Online searchable database Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP).
http://cdli.ucla.edu/
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Iberian Epigraphy
Jesús Rodríguez Ramos discusses and illustrates the languages and writing systems of Spain and Portugal, including Celtiberian and Sudlusitanian-Tartessian, with selected bibliography.
http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/
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The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Attempt to collect all published and unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database.
http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/
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Earliest Writing Found
The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project. BBC News report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/334517.stm
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