Add to ORKGWritten words probably developed independently at least in three places: Egypt, Mesopotamia and Harappa. In these densely populated areas, signs, icons and symbols were eventually used to create a writing system. It is interesting to see how sometimes remote populations are using the same icons and symbols. Here, we discuss examples and some results obtained by researchers investigating the signs of Harappan civilization. 1
This piece is a short teaser for a longer forthcoming contribution that has as its focus the develop...
The undeciphered script of the Indus Civilisation has been an enigma from the first publication of a...
Today in Japan,we use three different types of script. First Kana(hiragana and Katakana),phonetic-sy...
Written words probably developed independently at least in three places: Egypt, Mesopotamia and Hara...
<p>Around 45 odd signs out of the total number of Harappan signs found make up almost 100 percent of...
Around 45 odd signs out of the total number of Harappan signs found make up almost 100 percent of th...
<p>Considering the fact that the Harappan script may have been proto-Brahmi, the underlying language...
222 of the excavated potsherds have graffito-marks from simple strokes to intricate geometric and na...
Thousands of small stone seals of around 2500 BCE with enigmatic script and more than 400 pictograph...
Group 1) Goat, deer, highly-conventionalized human forms on a sherd are almost similar to the pictog...
This paper presents an analysis and interpretation of the so-called Harappan chimaera, one of the mo...
Writing – of any type – is a highly complex system of visual communication, but it is by no means th...
This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earlier...
open2noRebus and acrophony are crucial in the development of ancient invented scripts from Mesopotam...
A familiar story about the evolution of alphabets is that individual letters originated in iconic re...
This piece is a short teaser for a longer forthcoming contribution that has as its focus the develop...
The undeciphered script of the Indus Civilisation has been an enigma from the first publication of a...
Today in Japan,we use three different types of script. First Kana(hiragana and Katakana),phonetic-sy...
Written words probably developed independently at least in three places: Egypt, Mesopotamia and Hara...
<p>Around 45 odd signs out of the total number of Harappan signs found make up almost 100 percent of...
Around 45 odd signs out of the total number of Harappan signs found make up almost 100 percent of th...
<p>Considering the fact that the Harappan script may have been proto-Brahmi, the underlying language...
222 of the excavated potsherds have graffito-marks from simple strokes to intricate geometric and na...
Thousands of small stone seals of around 2500 BCE with enigmatic script and more than 400 pictograph...
Group 1) Goat, deer, highly-conventionalized human forms on a sherd are almost similar to the pictog...
This paper presents an analysis and interpretation of the so-called Harappan chimaera, one of the mo...
Writing – of any type – is a highly complex system of visual communication, but it is by no means th...
This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earlier...
open2noRebus and acrophony are crucial in the development of ancient invented scripts from Mesopotam...
A familiar story about the evolution of alphabets is that individual letters originated in iconic re...
This piece is a short teaser for a longer forthcoming contribution that has as its focus the develop...
The undeciphered script of the Indus Civilisation has been an enigma from the first publication of a...
Today in Japan,we use three different types of script. First Kana(hiragana and Katakana),phonetic-sy...