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	Cuneiform Tablet Collection Catalogue - http://cdli.ucla.edu/ Online searchable database Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP).
	American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy - http://www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/ 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 the public forum and in published form.
	British Epigraphy Society - http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/BES/ An independent 'chapter' of the Association Internationale d'Epigraphie Grecque et Latine. Aims, constitution, committee, events, news, jobs and prizes.
	Celtic Inscribed Stones - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/ A study by University College London of all non-Runic early medieval inscribed stones in the British Isles and Brittany. Scope, researchers, and online database.
	Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) - http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/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.

	The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/ Attempt to collect all published and unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database.
	Inscriptions from the Land of Israel - http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mls4n/ 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.
	Picturing the Past - http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2000/oct-dec/3dimaging.html 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.
	Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD) - http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/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.
	Browsing the Memory of the World - http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/papiuc11.htm Describes use of Unicode for encoding dead and academic scripts.

	http://www.dainst.org/index_75_de.html - http://www.dainst.org/index_75_de.html Journal of the German Archaeological Institute, covering many epigraphic topics. Lsts content of recent volumes.
	Discussion Group: Inscriptiones-l - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Inscriptiones-l/ A scholarly discussion forum for those people with a professional interest in Greek and Latin epigraphy.
	Linear A Texts in Phonetic Transcription - http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/ Proposed phonetic translation. Includes bibliography, and images.
	The Arabic & Islamic Inscriptions - http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Inscriptions/ Examples of Pre-Islamic and Islamic Arabic Inscriptions from 1st Century of Hijra onwards.
	Iberian Epigraphy - http://www.webpersonal.net/jrr/ Jesús Rodríguez Ramos discusses and illustrates the languages and writing systems of Spain and Portugal, including Celtiberian and Sudlusitanian-Tartessian, with selected bibliography.

	Phaistos Disc - http://web.gvdnet.dk/GVD002393/phaistos.htm Ole Hagen argues that this inscription from Minoan Crete is a calendar. Includes drawings of both faces of the disc.
	The two sides of the Phaistos Disc - http://www.kereti.de/indexEngl.html Proposes a connection between the Phaistos Disc, the Arkalochorie axe and Linear A.
	The Oriental Institute and Epigraphy - http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/epi/epigraphy.html 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.
	Earliest Writing Found - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/334517.stm The earliest examples of writing may have been discovered in Pakistan, according to archaeologists working on the Harappa project. BBC News report.
	African Writing Systems - http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Welcome.html Professor Ayele Bekerie introduces the various writing systems of Africa including Ancient Egyptian, Meroitic and Ethiopic. Petroglyphs, pictographs, syllabic and alphabetic types.

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