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an ancient alphabet written in two languages, with the letters and numbers on it's side

Brahmi is an ancient script from which many Asian scripts have developed. It has given birth to several south Asian, south east Asian , Tibetans and Devanagari scripts, but the Korean script has also developed from this.This script is written from left to right. Ashoka’s edicts and inscriptions are in Brahmi script, which is the oldest script in India.

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an ancient cuneform font on display in a museum

Description Ancient Cuneiform Text: TTF Font File The ancient text appears on a number of curious tablets, discovered by Stapleton McTavish the famous explorer and collector of ancient occult artifacts, each one depicting disturbing carvings. They are believed to have been the inspiration for the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred's monstrous Necronomicon. Create your own blasphemous RPG handouts with this custom made TTF font file. Use in Word, Excel, or use Photoshop or GIMP etc.... to create that…

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an ancient writing on the side of a stone wall

Stele, ancient Xanthos, Lycia, western Turkey. All four sides of this 5th C. BC pillar tomb are covered with Greek and the longest Lycian inscription known (250 lines). Like the Rosetta Stone, this invaluable inscription helped scholars begin to decipher the riddle of the very difficult Lycian language, though it is still not completely understood.

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four wooden plaques with writing on them and string attached to each one's sides

Wonderful samples of Devanagari script on palm leaf manuscripts! 1 2 3 4 Interesting non-connecting characters and some strange vowel maatras. Hosted by Columbia University, where these resources were also linked: Resources for S and SE Asian Languages and Cultures, SARAI, and SAJA.

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an old manuscript with writing on it

One of the rarest & most beautiful of all ancient scripts, here shown in its typographically finest form: this is the Avestan script, developed in the 3rd and 4th century AD to write Zoroastrian scripture. From Westergaard's "Zendavesta", the first complete edition, 1852-4. 1/3

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