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Ancient Writing Systems

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Early Alphabetic And Semitic Scripts East Asian Scripts Egyptian Hieroglyphic And Related Scripts Mesoamerican Writing Systems Mesopotamian Cuneiform South Asian Indus Scripts

Akkadian Adoption and Standardization of Cuneiform (c. 2500–1000 BCE)

2500 BCE - 1000 BCE

Aramaic Script as Administrative Lingua Franca in the Near East (c. 9th century BCE–3rd century CE)

870 BCE - 274

Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Texts and Monumental Inscriptions (c. 250–900 CE)

250 - 900

Greek Adoption and Local Adaptation of the Alphabet (c. 8th–4th centuries BCE)

800 BCE - 350 BCE

Hittite Use of Cuneiform in Anatolia (c. 17th–12th centuries BCE)

1950 BCE - 1986

Indus Valley Script and Harappan Seal Tradition (c. 2600–1900 BCE)

3300 BCE - 1987

Library of Ashurbanipal and Neo-Assyrian Cuneiform Archives (c. 7th century BCE)

612 - 2025

Middle Kingdom Hieratic Literary and Administrative Texts (c. 2055–1650 BCE)

2000 BCE - 1971

Old Kingdom Monumental Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (c. 2686–2181 BCE)

3100 BCE - 2181 BCE

Olmec and Epi‑Olmec Inscriptional Evidence (c. 900 BCE–100 CE)

900 BCE - 2007

Oracle Bone Script and Shang Dynasty Inscriptions (c. 13th–11th centuries BCE)

1254 BCE - 2017

Origins and Early Inscriptions of the Brahmi Script in South Asia (c. 3rd century BCE–1st century CE)

258 BCE - 100

Phoenician Maritime Script and Colonial Transmission across the Mediterranean (c. 1200–200 BCE)

1500 BCE - 146 BCE

Postclassic Codices and Mixtec‑Puebla Manuscript Traditions (c. 900–1521 CE)

1100 - 2016

Proto‑Sinaitic and Proto‑Canaanite Alphabetic Graffiti (c. 18th–12th centuries BCE)

1850 BCE - 2010

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