Epigraphy and Language

July 25 1999

Epigraphy is the study of scripts, inscriptions, and alphabets or glyphs, or other writing systems. Languages can be conveyed in a variety of writing systems so that the same language can be written in many different ways. The Rosetta stone has three inscriptions, two in Egyptian and one in Greek, but each is in a different writing system and carries the same information. This made it possible to decipher the written languages of ancient Egypt.

Until I have more content, check out the Epigraphy and Language section of the Bookshop.

• African presence in America



• African Writing Systems



• Afro-Olmecs?



• American Epigraphics



• Ancient American



• An Ancient Hebrew Inscription in New Mexico - Fact or Fraud? by James D. Tabor (the lead crosses from New Mexico were debunked by Barry Fell years ago, I'm looking forward to checking this out)



• Ann Harrison - Diffusionism, Pyramidal mounds in Fl, Copper trade 1500 BC
  
  Antiquity - An international journal of expert archaeology



• Archaeological Outliers - Hu McCulloch



• Archeology - Official Publication of the Archaeological Institute of America



• ArchNet



• Basques In The Susquehanna Valley 2,500 Years Ago?



• The Bat Creek Stone



• Biography of Barry Fell



• Burrows Cave - Burrows' version



• Burrows cave - Hubbard/Shaffranke version
  
  Carl L Johannessen



• The Celtic Coin Index



• Clyde Winters site - with pages about Sahara, Blacks in China, Olmec Writing, Nubians, Africanized Maya, Shang Dynasty, Decipherment of Meroitic, Tamana Civilization, Decipherment of Harappan Writing, Sudan Civilization, Dravidian and Mande people



• Cocaine Mummies?



• Cocaine Mummies - TV transcript



• Cocaine Mummies (Flem-Ath)



• Cultural Diffusionism - David B. Kelley



• Algonquins & Egyptians - Cyclone Covey (this site is a bit incoherent)
  
  Egyptian Navigation



• Egyptians in Australia?



• Epigraphy Forum Archive (many of the links shown here were taken from this comprehensive site)



• Epigraphy Links



• Every Ogham Thing on the Web



• Fantastic Archaeology Index - one of those not-too-fantastic sites



• Florida Archeology



• Gaels & Celts



• Gloria Farley



• Gloria Farley



• Grave Creek Stone



• Gungywamp Society



• History of Cartography



• History On The Rocks - Crack Cave in Colorado



• In Plain Sight - Gloria Farley



• Iron Furnaces - Bill Conner



• Institute for The Study of American Cultures



• Dr. Ivan Van Sertima - Thesis that Africans made sea-going voyages to America before Columbus



• Kennewick Man and diffusionism (Smithsonian Institute)



• Kennewick News



• The Los Lunas, NM Decalogue



• Newark OH Decalogue Stone and Keystone or The Newark Holy Stones



• Ohio's East Fork or 'Hanukkiah' Earthworks



• Olmec and the Shang - Link Between Chinese and American Cultures?



• Olmec Indians



• Olmec World Ritual and Rulership



• Olmec Writing



• PaleoBotany



• PreColumbian Maize in India



• PreColumbian TransAtlantic Copper trade



• Romans In Rio?



• Rongo Rongo



• Science Frontiers Digest of Scientific Anomalies - William Corliss (some specific articles linked in this list)



• From PBS' NOVA series, the transcript of Secrets of Ancient Navigation



• The Significance of Celtic Coinage



• Thor Heyerdahl



• Trans-Pacific Connections



• Traveller Bird Cherokee Syllabary



• Viking Navy - Pete Sjolander



• Voree tablet



• World Explorers Club



• Yuri Kuchinsky - probably the best on the web, definitely the best I've seen

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