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	Earliest Writing Found URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/334517.stm ODP description: The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project. BBC News report. Page title: BBC News \| Sci/Tech \| 'Earliest writing' found Page description: The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project.
	Phaistos Disc URL: http://web.gvdnet.dk/GVD002393/phaistos.htm ODP description: Ole Hagen argues that this inscription from Minoan Crete is a calendar. Includes drawings of both faces of the disc. Page title: The Phaistos disc
	African Writing Systems URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Welcome.html ODP description: Professor Ayele Bekerie introduces the various writing systems of Africa including Ancient Egyptian, Meroitic and Ethiopic. Petroglyphs, pictographs, syllabic and alphabetic types.
	Chiron URL: http://www.dainst.org/index_75_de.html ODP description: Journal of the German Archaeological Institute, covering many epigraphic topics. Lsts content of recent volumes.
	Browsing the Memory of the World URL: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/papiuc11.htm ODP description: Describes use of Unicode for encoding dead and academic scripts.
	American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy URL: http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/ ODP description: A non-profit organization whose purpose is to further research in, and the teaching of, Greek and Latin epigraphy in North America. The Society fosters collaboration in the field and facilitates the exchange of scholarly research and discussion, both in the public forum and in published form. Page title: ASGLE Home (CWRU) Page description: Home page of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
	Linear A Texts in Phonetic Transcription URL: http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/ ODP description: Proposed phonetic translation. Includes bibliography, and images. Page title: Linear A Texts: Homepage
	British Epigraphy Society URL: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/BES/ ODP description: An independent 'chapter' of the Association Internationale d'Epigraphie Grecque et Latine. Aims, constitution, committee, events, news, jobs and prizes. Page title: British Epigraphy Society - Homepage
	Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD) URL: http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/cdd/ ODP description: A lexicographic tool for reading texts written in a late stage of the ancient Egyptian language and in a highly cursive script known as Demotic. Page title: Oriental Institute \| The Chicago Demotic Dictionary
	Inscriptions from the Land of Israel URL: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mls4n/ ODP description: Project of the University of Virginia to create a searchable database of all the inscriptions from Israel from c.330 BC to 614 AD. Inscriptions from Beth She'arim currently available.
	Zeitschrift fÃ¼r Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) URL: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/zpe/ ODP description: International Journal for Papyrology and Ancient Epigraphics, covering the full spectrum of ancient texts. The articles are written in the author's languages, including English, German, and French. Page description: Herzlich willkommen bei der ZPE
	Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative URL: http://cdli.ucla.edu/ ODP description: Document transliterations, text glossaries, digitized originals and photo archives of ancient languages using the cuneiform script. Page title: Welcome to CDLI
	The Arabic & Islamic Inscriptions URL: http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/ ODP description: Examples of Pre-Islamic and Islamic Arabic Inscriptions from 1st Century of Hijra onwards. Page title: The Arabic & Islamic Inscriptions: Examples Of Arabic Epigraphy Page description: Examples Of Pre-Islamic and Islamic Inscriptions From 1st Century Of Hijra Onwards.
	Celtic Inscribed Stones URL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/ ODP description: A study by University College London of all non-Runic early medieval inscribed stones in the British Isles and Brittany. Scope, researchers, and online database. Page title: Index
	Discussion Group: Inscriptiones-l URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Inscriptiones-l/ ODP description: A scholarly discussion forum for those people with a professional interest in Greek and Latin epigraphy. Page title: Inscriptiones-l : Inscriptiones is a scholarly discussion forum for those people with a professional interest in Greek and Latin epigraphy. Page description: Inscriptiones-l: Inscriptiones is a scholarly discussion forum for those people with a professional interest in Greek and Latin epigraphy.
	The Oriental Institute and Epigraphy URL: http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/epi/epigraphy.html ODP description: The epigraphic survey of this institute of the University of Chicago was founded in 1924 and continues to record inscriptions and decoration on Ancient Egyptian monuments. Page title: Oriental Institute \| The Oriental Institute and Epigraphy
	Picturing the Past URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2000/oct-dec/3dimaging.html ODP description: Researcher Tom Malzbender has invented a tool thatÂ lets scholars see ancient inscribed texts in ways never before possible. Illustrated article from Hewlett-Packard Labs. Page title: HP Labs : News : 3dimaging Page description: Tom Malzbender, an HP Labs researcher, has invented a tool that lets scholars see ancient texts in ways never before possible. HP Labs is the central research lab for Hewlett-Packard.
	The two sides of the Phaistos Disc URL: http://www.kereti.de/indexEngl.html ODP description: Proposes a connection between the Phaistos Disc, the Arkalochorie axe and Linear A. Page title: The Phaistos Disc Page description: Site about the connection between the Phaistos disc, the Arkalochorie axe and Linear A
	The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/ ODP description: Attempt to collect all published and unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database.