#Epigraphy

Author: Bruce Bower / Source: Science News Shortly before being forced out of their homeland in the 1830s, Cherokee people of the southeastern United States left written accounts on cave walls of secretive rituals. Now researchers have translated some of those messages from long ago. Cherokee

Author: Jonathan Carey / Source: Atlas Obscura The Dampier Archipelago is a collection of 42 islands off the northwestern coast of Australia. Across these land masses, there are around 500,000 to one million petroglyphs, carved into various boulders and caves by Indigenous Australians. The

Source: Atlas Obscura Maison Carrée is one of the best preserved Roman temples and one of the most wondrous sites in… Click here to read more The post Maison Carrée Reconstructed Inscription appeared first on FeedBox.

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Source: Mental Floss How were Hieroglyphics deciphered? It was a tricky task, which defied several centuries of effort. Hieroglyphic writing was a very complex, ambiguous system mixing at least four different styles of encoding: Alphabetic: Some signs represent a single sound like they do in