Ancient scripts

Writing systems and their signs: how people first wrote, and how the forms changed.

• Chinese radicalsThe components that organise Chinese characters, and how they grew from pictures carved on oracle bones.1 entry
• Norse runesThe runic alphabets of Scandinavia and the wider Germanic world, and what each rune stood for.1 entry
• Egyptian hieroglyphicsSigns from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and religious art.1 entry