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Ancient Scripts of the World
Designed to give an introduction to writing systems, which hopefully will tantalize the reader into searching for more information on the web or in books and publications.
ancientscripts.com/
Mesoamerican Writing Systems   

Ancient-Symbols.com
Ancient Symbols, egyptian, celtic, native american, chinese, japanese and more.
ancient-symbols.com/

On the Trail of Ancient Symbols
From Three Hares to the Green Man...a Devon researcher is out to unravel what lies behind these ancient symbols found across the county.
bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2006/02/16/three_hares_feature.shtml

Maya civilization - wikipedia.org
The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization
Mesoamerica   

Ancient Symbols in Architecture by Balwant Saini
Symbols have always been an important part of an architect's design vocabulary. In recent years some architects in India have used ancient symbols such as Vedic mandalas as a basis for planning and design of buildings.
fengshuiseminars.com/articles/ancientsymbols.html

Ancient Ideas, Megaliths, Rock-Carvings, Rituals
Essays on ancient ideas, megaliths, laws, myths, petroglyphs, time-symbols in rock-carvings, monuments and figurative arts. Covers cultural developments in the Old World and especially in Scandinavia. Then it is about our roots and ancestors 7000 years back.
freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~catshaman/
Ancient Symbols of Dal   

Linear B
The hieroglphic script appears only on seal stones and has yet to be deciphered.
omniglot.com/writing/linearb.htm
OmniGlot: Writing Systems   

Mandorla - Ancient Symbol of Wholeness
An ancient symbol of two circles coming together and overlapping one another to form an almond shape in the middle. Jensen (1996) describes the mandorla as similar to the image of two mandalas (Sanskrit for circle) merging together until an almond shape is formed in the center.
sandplay.org/symbols/mandorla.htm

Cuneiform Collection - Science Museum of Minnesota
Over five thousand years ago, the people dwelling in southern Iraq invented one of the world's earliest systems of writing.
smm.org/anthropology/cuneiform/

UponReflection
Learn about the symbols and imagery used in the ancient world. Covering aspects of runes, ogham, hieroglyphics, the alphabet, gods & goddesses, plantlore, etc.
uponreflection.co.uk/

 

Easter Island

Easter Island - Moai - Crystalinks
Easter Island is the world's most isolated inhabited island. It is also one of the most mysterious.
crystalinks.com/easterisland.html

Rongorongo - wikipedia.org
Twenty-six wooden objects bearing rongorongo inscriptions were collected in the late 19th century and are now scattered in museums and private collections.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
Easter Island   

Easter Island's Rongorongo Script
The past has seen many different attempts at reading Rapanui's rongorongo inscriptions.
netaxs.com/~trance/fischer.html

 

Etruscan

Mysterious Etruscans - Pre-Roman Civilisation in Italy
The enormous contribution that the Etruscan civilization has made to our Western civilization.
mysteriousetruscans.com/

Etruscan alphabet - omniglot.com
The Etruscan alphabet is thought to have been developed from the Greek alphabet by Greek colonists in Italy.
omniglot.com/writing/etruscan.htm

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