British Epigraphy Society

An independent 'chapter' of the Association Internationale d'Epigraphie Grecque et Latine. Aims, constitution, committee, events, news, jobs and prizes.
http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/BES/

Celtic Inscribed Stones

A study by University College London of all non-Runic early mediaeval inscribed stones in the British Isles and Brittany. Scope, researchers, and online database.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/

African Writing Systems

Professor Ayele Bekerie introduces the various writing systems of Africa including Ancient Egyptian, Meroitic and Ethiopic. Petroglyphs, pictographs, syllabic and alphabetic types.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Welcome.html

Inscriptions from the Land of Israel

Project of the University of Virginia to create a searchable database of all the inscriptions from Israel from c.330 BC to 614 AD. Inscriptions from Beth She'arim currently available.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mls4n/

Picturing the Past

Researcher Tom Malzbender has invented a tool that lets scholars see ancient inscribed texts in ways never before possible. Illustrated article from Hewlett-Packard Labs.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2000/oct-dec/3dimaging.html

Browsing the Memory of the World

Describes use of Unicode for encoding dead and academic scripts.
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/papiuc11.htm

Cuneiform Tablet Collection Catalogue

Online searchable database Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP).
http://cdli.ucla.edu/

Iberian Epigraphy

Jesús Rodríguez Ramos discusses and illustrates the languages and writing systems of Spain and Portugal, including Celtiberian and Sudlusitanian-Tartessian, with selected bibliography.
http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/

American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

A non-profit organization whose purpose is to further research in, and the teaching of, Greek and Latin epigraphy in North America. The Society fosters collaboration in the field and facilitates the exchange of scholarly research and discussion, both in t
http://asgle.classics.unc.edu/

Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies

Research facility for the study of Greek and Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in the United States. Its purpose is to foster the study of inscriptions and manuscripts and promote research opportunities for those interested in these primary sources of in
http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/epigraphy/

The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

Attempt to collect all published and unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database.
http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/

Earliest Writing Found

The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project. BBC News report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/334517.stm

Discussion Group: Inscriptiones-l

A scholarly discussion forum for those people with a professional interest in Greek and Latin epigraphy.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Inscriptiones-l/

Chiron

Journal of the German Archaeological Institute, covering many epigraphic topics. Lsts content of recent volumes.
http://www.dainst.org/index_75_de.html

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)

International Journal for Papyrology and Ancient Epigraphics, covering the full spectrum of ancient texts. The articles are written in the author's languages, including English, German, and French.
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/zpe/

Phaistos Disc

Ole Hagen argues that this inscription from Minoan Crete is a calendar. Includes drawings of both faces of the disc.
http://home.gvdnet.dk/~hagen/phaistos.htm

The Oriental Institute and Epigraphy

The epigraphic survey of this institute of the University of Chicago was founded in 1924 and continues to record inscriptions and decoration on Ancient Egyptian monuments.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/EPI/Epigraphy.html

Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD)

A lexicographic tool for reading texts written in a late stage of the ancient Egyptian language and in a highly cursive script known as Demotic.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/PUB/SRC/CDD/CDD.html

The two sides of the Phaistos Disc

Proposes a connection between the Phaistos Disc, the Arkalochorie axe and Linear A.
http://www.kereti.de/indexEngl.html

Linear A Texts in Phonetic Transcription

Proposed phonetic translation. Includes bibliography, and images.
http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/