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![Linear B Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3394.jpg?v=1724517008)
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Linear B Script
Linear B script was the writing system of the Mycenaean civilization of the Bronze Age Mediterranean. The syllabic script was used to write Mycenaean Greek from c. 1500 to c. 1200 BCE. It was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, and so...
![Linear A Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17693.png?v=1706776083-1690981746)
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Linear A Script
Linear A script was used by the Minoan civilization centred on Crete during the Bronze Age. Used from around 1850 to around 1450 BCE, the script has never been deciphered. Artefacts bearing Linear A script, most commonly clay tablets, have...
![Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/93.jpg?v=1718005269)
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Script
Script is the written expression of a language. Cuneiform, the first script, was invented in Sumer, Mesopotamia c. 3500 BCE, hieroglyphics sometime prior to the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt (c. 3150-2613 BCE), and Sanskrit in India during...
![Indus Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2977.jpg?v=1718005267)
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Indus Script
The Indus Script is the writing system developed by the Indus Valley Civilization and it is the earliest form of writing known in the Indian subcontinent. The origin of this script is poorly understood: this writing system remains undeciphered...
![Greek Alphabet](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3465.jpg?v=1712030343)
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Greek Alphabet
The Greek Alphabet developed from the Phoenician script at some point around the 8th century BCE. The earlier Mycenaean Linear B script, used primarily for lists and inventories, had been lost during the Greek Dark Age, and the technology...
![Brahmi Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6042.jpg?v=1691510692)
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Brahmi Script
The Brahmi script is the earliest writing system developed in India after the Indus script. It is one of the most influential writing systems; all modern Indian scripts and several hundred scripts found in Southeast and East Asia are derived...
![Kharosthi Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6648.jpg?v=1718005275)
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Kharosthi Script
The Kharosthi script (also known as 'Indo-Bactrian' script) was a writing system originally developed in present-day northern Pakistan, sometime between the 4th and 3rd century BCE. Kharosthi was employed to represent a form of Prakrit (Middle...
![Clay Tablet with Linear A Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17693.png?v=1706776083-1690981746)
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Clay Tablet with Linear A Script
A clay tablet from Zakros, Crete inscribed with Linear A script. Still undeciphered, Linear A script was used by the Minoan civilization from c. 1850 to c. 1450 BCE. (Zakros Archaeological Museum)
![Writing](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/93.jpg?v=1718005269)
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Writing
Writing is the physical manifestation of a spoken language. It is thought that human beings developed language c. 35,000 BCE as evidenced by cave paintings from the period of the Cro-Magnon Man (c. 50,000-30,000 BCE) which appear to express...
![Linear A Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6108.jpg?v=1645036204)
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Linear A Script
An example of a Minoan Linear A tablet.