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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. Ancient Scrolls Aesthetic, Ancient Texts Aesthetic, Ancient Typography, Ancient Greek Language, Greek Writing, Ancient Letters, Ancient Background, Ancient Text, African History Facts

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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Below are examples of 50 different written languages. Unless you're Indiana Jones, I doubt you'll recognize more than a handful. However, of these 50 scripts, five of them are contrived 20th Century creations. Two of them are shorthand-style phonetic alphabets designed for English; one of them is an ideographic writing

Galdrabok, The Medieval Grimoire That Sheds Light on the Occult Practices of Iceland | Ancient Origins Alfabeto Viking, Ancient Scripts, Arte Occulta, Runic Alphabet, Ancient Writing, Ancient Languages, Writing Systems, Old Norse, Ancient Origins

Perhaps not as well-known as other grimoires, the Galdrabok, an Icelandic ‘book of magic’, is one of the most important surviving documents for the practices and understanding of occult practices in Iceland in the late Medieval era. It offers a unique insight into the various elements that contributed to a national magical tradition in Iceland at the time of its compilation.

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