Le « linéaire A » est une écriture, encore non décryptée, qui fut utilisée dans la Crète ancienne. Cette écriture était composée d'environ quatre-vingt-dix signes et idéogrammes. On suppose qu'il transcrit la langue des Minoens.C'est Arthur Evans au début du XX e siècle qui découvrit en Crète les vestiges de cette écriture, ainsi que d'autres écritures anciennes.

L'épigraphie est l’étude des inscriptions réalisées sur des matières non putrescibles telles que la pierre (on parle alors d'« inscriptions lapidaires »), l'argile ou le métal [2].Cette science a pour objectif de les dater, de les replacer dans leur contexte culturel, de les traduire et de déterminer les informations qui peuvent en être déduites.

Proto-Sinaitic (also referred to as Sinaitic, Proto-Canaanite when found in Canaan, the North Semitic alphabet, or Early Alphabetic) is considered the earliest trace of alphabetic writing and the common ancestor of both the Ancient South Arabian script and the Phoenician alphabet, which led to many modern alphabets including the Greek alphabet. According to common theory, …

Egyptian hieroglyphs (/ ˈ h aɪ r ə ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s /, / ˈ h aɪ r oʊ ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s /) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language.Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The later hieratic and …

Ogham (Modern Irish: [ˈoː(ə)mˠ]; Middle Irish: ogum, ogom, later ogam [ˈɔɣəmˠ]) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries).There are roughly 400 surviving orthodox inscriptions on stone monuments …

The first Oaxacan inscriptions are thought to encode Zapotec, partially because of numerical suffixes characteristic of the Zapotec languages. Aztec syllabary (according to Lacadena and Wichmann, 2004) Structure and use. Aztec was pictographic and ideographic proto-writing, augmented by phonetic rebuses. It also contained syllabic signs and ...

Old Turkic (also East Old Turkic, Orkhon Turkic language, Old Uyghur) is the earliest attested form of the Turkic languages, found in Göktürk and Uyghur Khaganate inscriptions dating from about the eighth to the 13th century. It is the oldest attested member of the Siberian Turkic branch of Turkic, which is extant in the modern Western Yugur language.

L’écriture hiéroglyphique égyptienne est un système d'écriture figurative : les caractères qui la composent représentent en effet des objets divers — naturels ou produits par l'Homme — tels que des plantes, des figures de dieux, d'humains et d'animaux, etc. (cf. classification des hiéroglyphes).Les égyptologues y distinguent traditionnellement trois catégories de signes :

As a result of the Turks' nomadic lifestyle, the horse is also one of the main figures of Turkic mythology; Turks considered the horse an extension of the individual, particularly the male horse. This might have been the origin of the title "at-beyi" (horse-lord).[citation needed]Tulpar is a winged or swift horse in Turkic mythology (for example, Kazakh and Tatar mythology), similar …

Old Persian cuneiform is a semi-alphabetic cuneiform script that was the primary script for Old Persian.Texts written in this cuneiform have been found in Iran (Persepolis, Susa, Hamadan, Kharg Island), Armenia, Romania (), Turkey (Van Fortress), and along the Suez Canal. They were mostly inscriptions from the time period of Darius I, such as the DNa inscription, as well as his …

Mongolian cuisine is primarily based on meat and spices, with some regional variations. The most common meat is mutton, supplemented in the desert south by camel meat, and in the northern mountains by beef (including yak).Dairy products are made from mare's milk (), from cattle, yaks, and camels (e.g. clotted cream).Popular dishes include buuz (a type of meat dumpling), …

L'écriture maya est un système d'écriture logosyllabique, c'est-à-dire à la fois logographique (un symbole — graphème — correspond à une notion — lemme) et syllabographique (un graphème correspond au son d'une syllabe), servant à retranscrire l'ensemble des langues mayas.L'écriture était l'apanage d'une caste de scribes « Ah Tz'iib » faisant partie de la haute société.

The Pallava script or Pallava Grantha, is a Brahmic script, named after the Pallava dynasty of South India, attested since the 4th century AD.As epigrapher Arlo Griffiths makes clear, however, the term is misleading as not all of the relevant scripts referred to have a connection with the Pallava dynasty.

Les plus anciennes inscriptions turciques connues sont les deux monumentales inscriptions de l'Orkhon, trouvées en Mongolie moderne. Érigées entre 732 et 735, en l'honneur du prince Kul Tigin et de son frère l'empereur Bilge Kaghan, elles constituent une autre importante découverte récente.Après la découverte et la mise au jour de ces monuments et d'autres dalles de pierre …