traces of writing

By mariastamatopoulou
  • Egyptian hieroglyphs
    4000 BCE

    Egyptian hieroglyphs

    Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt. It combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    hieroglyphics

    Ιερογλυφικά Αίγυπτος (ieroglyfiká Εgyptos)
    hieroglyphics Egypt
  • Linear B of Mycenaean Greek
    1800 BCE

    Linear B of Mycenaean Greek

    Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek in clay tablets and consists of around 87 syllabic signs and over 100 ideographic signs. 45 clay tablets were foynd in Pylos (west coast of the Peloponnese, in southern Greece, near Kalamata).
  • Hieroglyphs of Minoan Crete, Greece
    1700 BCE

    Hieroglyphs of Minoan Crete, Greece

    Phaistos Disc
    Δίσκος Φαιστού (Diskos Festou)
    is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete in Greece, was made by pressing hieroglyphic "seals" . It is one of the most famous mysteries of archaeology because it is not decrypted yet.
  • Ancient Greek
    800 BCE

    Ancient Greek

    Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of fifth-century Athenian historians, and philosophers. It has given many words to English vocabulary and has been a subject of study in schools and univercities of the Western world since the Renaissance as well as Latin.
  • Modern Greek
    1000

    Modern Greek

    Modern Greek Language is the official language of the Hellenic Republic (Greece) and Cyprus.