Palaeography (History of Writing)

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writin...

100 Symbols That Changed The World looks at the genesis and adoption of the worlds most recognizable symbols. Universal symbols have been...

Reveal the secrets of the esoteric druidic alphabet and unlock its potential as a powerful magical tool. Writing systems have been used for magica...

The Ancient Egyptians used a hieroglyphic writing system that still resonates today for its graphic representation of things, people, pharaohs and ...

An alphabet developed by Germanic and Nordic peoples during ancient times, runes were used to represent both simple things and more complex concept...

The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music. The Montpellier C...

This is a history of the formation of Arabic letters from the earliest styles to modern computer fonts. This book, abundantly illustrated with exam...

The discovery and decryption of Ugaritic cuneiform tablets in the 1920s has given scholars an insight into the development of alphabetic writing an...

Ferraras book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but its also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many oth...