ancient scripts
Hieroglyphs and cuneiform
Ancient scripts are writing systems from early civilizations that are no longer in everyday use.
The term covers everything from Egyptian hieroglyphics to Sumerian cuneiform to Mayan glyphs.
Some ancient scripts have been deciphered; others remain mysterious: Scholars are still working to decode the ancient scripts of the Indus Valley civilization.
The phrase often carries connotations of hidden wisdom or lost knowledge.
- Demotic scriptLate Egyptian writing system
- epigraphyStudy of ancient inscriptions
- deciphermentInterpreting unknown scripts
- code breakingSolving encrypted messages
- cuneiformStylus-impressed ancient script
inscriptions · stone inscriptions · carved in stone · hieroglyphs · Proto-Sinaitic · oracle bones · Phaistos Disc · Mesopotamia · lost civilizations · Rosetta Stone · logograms · runes · Phoenician alphabet · graphemes · Egypt · syllabaries · papyrus scrolls · scrolls
- Old Arabic
- ancient communicationsmoke signal, hieroglyphs, carrier pigeon, pictographs, pictograms
- etymologyword origins, word history, word origin, etymon, root words
- ancient artsculpture, sculptures, pottery, mosaics, murals
- Ancient IndiaIndus Valley, Vedas, Sanskrit, Upanishads, Mahabharata
- Ancient TheaterGreek theater, Roman theater, theatron, skene, orchestra
ancient scriptsdigital text
Computerized written content
emoji · keyboard input · binary code · programming languages
ancient scriptsdigital encoding
Numeric data representation
binary code · ASCII · programming languages · QR codes · hypertext