Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a Cambridge Uni project funded by UKRI, and host of the Endangered Writing Network. For more information please visit our websites: https://linktr.ee/viewsproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share
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NCACE Emerging Academic–Cultural Collaboration Award for the Script Keepers NetworkWe are delighted to tell you that the Script Keepers Network has been honoured in the Future Icons of Culture Knowledge Exchange Awards by NCACE (the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Excha…viewsproject.wordpress.com
New article!: The Origins and Evolution of Writing www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... 🧵1/
The Origins and Evolution of WritingFor centuries, scholars have debated the etiology and evolution of writing. The most persistent concerns relate to the relationship between writing and social organization, linguistic structure, and c...www.annualreviews.orgI would urge everyone to read this response to the New Yorker's upsetting piece that really mischaracterised language revitalisation efforts.
Endangered Languages ProjectIf you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...
New VIEWS #openaccess publication! 🎉 Philippa M. Steele, ‘The visual-cultural fit of writing systems’ in Haralambous, Y. (ed.) Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century /gʁafematik/ October 23–25, 2024, Proceedings, Part I, Fluxus Editions, 15-46. doi.org/10.36824/202...
Fluxus EditionsGrapholinguistics and Its Applicationsdoi.orgAn excellent post on writing (or not writing) in Homer's epics by @dannybate.com!
Dr Danny BateI rarely write about Homer, being daunted by the topic, but since the poet is having a moment, here's a piece about the alphabet, writing, and their absence in the epics. Inspired by a chat with @viewsproject.bsky.social, I hesitantly suggest a theory for that absence. dannybate.com/2026/07/24/h...
New on the VIEWS blog! An interview by Juan Casco with Kenichi Suzuki about his Mayan font project: viewsproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/m...
Mayan Script Font Project: Juan Casco interviews Kenichi SuzukiWe are pleased to share this interview by Juan Casco with designer Kenichi Suzuki about his Mayan typography work. Juan Casco is an Ecuadorian visual designer, art director, and researcher speciali…viewsproject.wordpress.com
Outside of Roman histories, the great Carthaginian general Hannibal makes a surprise appearance in an Etruscan tomb. This epitaph from the 2nd century BC (for a man who lived to 106!) mentions "hanipaluscle" at the end. Yet, being in Etruscan, we're not sure what this man did for/against Hannibal!
A game board from the forum of Timgad (Algeria) is a more Roman spin on the trite ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ sign. Replacing hunting w/cheese & and I am in, y’all. ‘venari lavari / ludere ridere / (h)oc{c} est / vivere’: ‘to hunt, to bath, to play, to laugh — This is to live!’ (CIL VIII, 17938). 🛁
In case anyone is interested in my directionality research, here is the paper I gave at the recent Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century conference in Reading: youtu.be/jeMAj0gsNYY?...
Philippa Steele, From linguistic to material approaches: interdisciplinary entanglement…YouTube video by Yannis Haralambousyoutu.beMy friend Alice Mazzilli, a member of the wider VIEWS and Endangered Writing Research Network, is featured in this podcast about writing ✍️ tr.ee/dYq-iuMlgA
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#OnThisDay in 1952 Michael Ventris announced on the radio that he had deciphered the Linear B script, and the language it was used to write was Greek: www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/maga... #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 1/2
Linear B decoder Michael Ventris on BBC in 1952For more than 50 years, the decipherment of a mysterious ancient script called Linear B was seen as one of the greatest linguistic riddles - it was eventually cracked in 1952 by a British architect.www.bbc.co.ukIt was fun helping with the etymologies for this! www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The Viking word hidden in the Declaration of American IndependenceFrom Roman freedom to Viking happiness, the iconic words in the Declaration of Independence reveal thousands of years of humans wrestling with how to live well together.www.bbc.com
#New on #OCIANA - 2 newly published South Semitic partial abecedaries (halḥamqaries). 1. Himaitic: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions... 2. Taymanitic: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions... What they share in common is part of a fascinating story about the spread of the script. See: academia.edu/167205988/Al...
