Scripts

Examples of writing systems from all over the world, including inscriptions and manuscripts

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Scripts':

  • Aleppo Aleppo Codex
  • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Temple of Edfu; Champollion came here and developed some of the ideas which led to his decipherment of the script
  • Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat) Source of more than 16000 cuneiform tablets
  • Bisotun Inscription in Elamite, Babylonian and Old Persian
  • Byblos
  • Chongmyo Shrine
  • Convent of St. Gall
  • Copan Includes hieroglyphic texts
  • Jelling
  • Ohrid Region Slavic writing culture (and early Cyrillic alphabet)
  • Old Town of Lijiang Naxi script (pictograms)
  • Quirigua Contains Maya hieroglyphics
  • Rapa Nui Rongorongo script
  • Saint Catherine Area Early Christian manuscripts
  • San Millán, Yuso and Suso Monasteries First literature in Castillian
  • Tikal National Park Several hieroglyphic inscriptions
  • Xanthos-Letoon
  • Yin Xu