Home›ArticlesCategoryArticles38 entries. Click any to see everything it connects to.BrowseCompareCompare At A Past YearEnter a year to compare these entries as the atlas records them at that moment. Leave it empty for the present. A year before the common era is entered with a minus sign, so 44 BCE is minus 44.Show This YearSelect all 38A Decipherment That Did Not HoldArticles2 linksA Language Invented WholeArticles2 linksA Script Outliving Its Language: Ge'ez TodayArticles2 linksAn Architect Cracks the Aegean's Oldest GreekArticles2 linksAshoka's Edicts and the Root of a Thousand ScriptsArticles2 linksBringing Tsalagi BackArticles2 linksCracked Through Its Own DescendantArticles2 linksCracking the Code: Champollion and the Rosetta StoneArticles2 linksCuneiform's Long Afterlife: One Script, Many LanguagesArticles2 linksEaster Island's Silent TabletsArticles2 linksExcommunicated Over a Living LanguageArticles2 linksEzana's Innovation: How an Abjad Became an AbugidaArticles2 linksFragments of Meaning: Monks, Sutras and the Birth of KatakanaArticles2 linksFrom Glagolitic to Cyrillic: A Borrowed LegacyArticles2 linksFrom Paleo-Hebrew to the Square Script: A Quiet Revolution in ExileArticles2 linksFrom Sacred Carving to Everyday Hand: Hieratic, Demotic and the Coptic AlphabetArticles2 linksFrom Sutra Margins to Neon Signs: Katakana's Changing JobArticles2 linksHow Cuneiform Was Written and ReadArticles2 linksNinety Signs In Common: What Linear A and Linear B Share, and What They Do NotArticles2 linksOne Script, Many Vowels: What Makes an AbugidaArticles2 linksPalace Ledgers in Greek: What Linear B Tablets Actually RecordedArticles2 linksPrint, Power and the Cherokee PhoenixArticles2 linksReading a Glyph Block: How Maya Writing WorksArticles2 linksSequoyah's Twelve Year InventionArticles2 linksThe Alphabet Built for a Mission: Cyril, Methodius and the Slavic BibleArticles2 linksThe Cold War Fight Over How to Read Maya GlyphsArticles2 linksThe Fifteen Year Old Who Helped Crack the CodeArticles2 linksThe Heresy of Three LanguagesArticles2 linksThe Language Everyone LearnedArticles2 linksThe Letters of the Torah: Why Script Matters to ScriptureArticles2 linksThe Man Who Willed a Language Back to LifeArticles2 linksThe Scholar Who Would Not Be Told No: Yuri Knorozov and the Maya CodeArticles2 linksThe Script Nobody Can Read: Linear A and the Missing Language of CreteArticles2 linksThe World's Oldest Written LanguageArticles2 linksTwo Brothers and an AlphabetArticles2 linksTwo Syllabaries, One Origin: Hiragana and Katakana ComparedArticles2 linksTwo Thousand Years in One TongueArticles2 linksWomen's Hand: How Hiragana Opened Japanese LiteratureArticles2 links