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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 old book with writing on it

This is a very rare Syriac manuscript on Rikin Al Kiddas ( Holy Power) acquired from Turkey. It is written in Syriac Serto script. This manuscript I believe is dated but I could not read the script nor understand it. However there is a note written in Arabic "sanah 132" means year 132. Hence I believe this manuscript is dated 1132 CE. There is also a note written in Arabic that this manuscript was purchased by Abraham Ben Jacob. I welcome anyone who has any knowledge of this script…

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an old book with writing on it, and some other things in the page below

School curricula also explain why ancient grammatical literature was transmitted in surprising quantities across medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, including educational material for the study not only of Latin but also of ancient Greek. Popular texts, such as Priscian’s 5th-century Institutes of Latin Grammar, survive in large numbers, sometimes annotated with glosses or notes added in classrooms, as in this example from 11th-century France.

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an image of some writing on the side of a stone wall with arrows and other symbols

Writing: Mesopotamia (cuneiform) Over 5 thousand years ago, people living in Mesopotamia created a form of writing to record and communicate different types of information. The earliest writing was based in pictograms. Over time the writing changed and the signs developed into a script which was called cuneiform. Cuneiform was used to record many things like trade, astronomy, literature, and daily events. We chose this characteristic for our civilization because the very first writing was…

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