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Rosetta Stone (Popularity:  )
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ67
Photograph and description from the British Museum of the slab found in 1799 in Rosetta, with a text written in hieroglyphs, Demotic and Greek, enabling the crucial breakthrough in deciphering ...
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Eskaya Script (Popularity: )
http://www.bibingka.com/dahon/mystery/eskaya.htm
Describes the Eskaya people of Bohol, and their writing, numerical, and calendar system, as well as links to information about other Philippine scripts.
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Serge Rosmorduc (Popularity: )
http://webperso.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/PortraitE.html
Fonts and macros for writing hieroglyphics in LaTeX. Also contains some texts and related links.
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The Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian (Popularity: )
http://www.friesian.com/egypt.htm
Detailed introduction and survey, including some helpful .wav files.
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Creative Ideas: Evolutions in the English Lexicon (Popularity: )
http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/spellit.html
The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings.
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Prehistoric Writings in Greece (Popularity: )
http://www.kairatos.com.gr/linear1.htm
Tracks the development of Linear B from Cretan hieroglyphics via Linear A; some transliteration of symbols derived from Greek words given.
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Middle Egyptian (Popularity: )
http://webperso.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord//EgyptienE.html
Introduction to middle Egyptian and its hieroglyphs, with resources such as software and discussion forums.
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Jim Loy's Egyptian Hieroglyphics and Egyptology Page (Popularity: )
http://www.jimloy.com/egypt/egypt.htm
Online grammar, dictionary, and fonts for ancient Egyptian.
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HieroSite (Popularity: )
http://penkitten15.tripod.com/
Lessons in hieroglyphics and links to other pages with software.
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World Writing Systems - an introduction (Popularity: )
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/writintro.htm
Very rich site on linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms and social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies.
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AncientScripts - Linear B (Popularity: )
http://www.ancientscripts.com/linearb.html
Clear .gif images of some basic characters.
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John Chadwick (1920-98) (Popularity: )
http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-1719.html
Obituary reproduced from The Guardian of the classical scholar who, together with Michael Ventris, deciphered Linear B, the writing used by the Mycenaeans.
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Hieroglyphic Directory (Popularity: )
http://members.aol.com/egyptnew/glyph.html
Includes lists of common glyphs and a brief introduction.
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Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research (Popularity: )
http://www.ccer.nl/index_logo.html
Developers of computer software relating to Egyptology, especially Glyph for Windows and MacScribe for Macintosh, for typsetting hieroglyphs. Also provide Egyptian word and hieroglyph databases, dictionaries and indexes.
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Hierolgyphs.net (Popularity: )
http://hieroglyphs.net/
Tools for learning, teaching and using hieroglyphs. Includes two-way dictionaries, interactive grammar lessons, and an online translator which accepts transliterations or English words.
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Ancient Egyptian Language Discussion List (Popularity: )
http://www.rostau.org.uk/AEgyptian-L/
Online resources for the learning of ancient Egyptian, including hieroglyphic transcriptions/translations, discussion list and online tutorials.
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