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an ancient cuneform font on display in a museum

Description Ancient Cuneiform Text: TTF Font File The ancient text appears on a number of curious tablets, discovered by Stapleton McTavish the famous explorer and collector of ancient occult artifacts, each one depicting disturbing carvings. They are believed to have been the inspiration for the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred's monstrous Necronomicon. Create your own blasphemous RPG handouts with this custom made TTF font file. Use in Word, Excel, or use Photoshop or GIMP etc.... to create that…

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an ancient alphabet written in two languages, with the letters and numbers on it's side

Brahmi is an ancient script from which many Asian scripts have developed. It has given birth to several south Asian, south east Asian , Tibetans and Devanagari scripts, but the Korean script has also developed from this.This script is written from left to right. Ashoka’s edicts and inscriptions are in Brahmi script, which is the oldest script in India.

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an ancient writing on the side of a stone wall

Stele, ancient Xanthos, Lycia, western Turkey. All four sides of this 5th C. BC pillar tomb are covered with Greek and the longest Lycian inscription known (250 lines). Like the Rosetta Stone, this invaluable inscription helped scholars begin to decipher the riddle of the very difficult Lycian language, though it is still not completely understood.

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four wooden plaques with writing on them and string attached to each one's sides

Wonderful samples of Devanagari script on palm leaf manuscripts! 1 2 3 4 Interesting non-connecting characters and some strange vowel maatras. Hosted by Columbia University, where these resources were also linked: Resources for S and SE Asian Languages and Cultures, SARAI, and SAJA.

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an ancient alphabet with some writing on it

Aramaic (ארמית, Arāmît): The Aramaic alphabet was adaptaed from the Phoenician alphabet during the 8th century BC and was used to write the Aramaic language until about 600 AD. The Aramaic alphabet was adapted to write quite a few other languages, and developed into a number of new alphabets, including the Hebrew square script and cursive script, Nabataean, Syriac, Palmyrenean, Mandaic, Sogdian, Mongolian and probably the Old Turkic script. (...)

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an old manuscript with cursive writing on the front and back pages, all in black ink

VII. Alphabetum Hanscretanum sive Brachmanicum; Malabaricum V. Notre Vocales, I Syrorium è Græco A.D. 306; II. Arabum è Syriaco A.D. 800; III. Judæorium è Syriaco & Arabico A.D. 900 VI. Arabicum

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an ancient writing on the side of a building

Tamil language, member of the Dravidian language family, spoken primarily in India. It is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is also an official language in Sri Lanka and Singapore and has additional speakers in Malaysia, Mauritius, Fiji, and South Africa.

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an old language with many different letters and numbers on it, including the words in thai

Ancient Scripts: Oriya language script The Oriya script developed from an early form of the Bengali script which belongs to the Northern group of South Asian scripts. Oriya is used to write the Oriya language which is spoken in the modern Indian state of Orissa located on the east coast of India. for http://ift.tt/2gUqHTb

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an old manuscript with cursive writing on it

Magia cryptographica s. tractatus de modis occulte scribendi. Das ist unterschiedene magische Alphabete, wodurch man den Sinn der alten Weisen in ihren verborgenen Schriften entdecken kann - Cod.mag.65 The cryptographic magic, or a treatise of the occult way of writing. That being different magical alphabets, whereby one can discover the meaning of the ancient sages in their hidden writings The original scan of this manuscript can be found HERE. All right to the original images belong to the…

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