It’s a new term here at the VIEWS project, and we have many exciting things coming up. This post is just going to share our autumn seminar programme – the rest will be in another post s…

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: VIEWS/EWRN seminar: Yoruba Symbolic Systems. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

We report the successful fabrication of a laboratory-made carbonized papyrus scroll and the virtual unrolling and reading of its custom leaded ink text, using X-ray tomography. We believe this is the ...

Our summer Visiting Fellow Roland Buckingham Hsiao very kindly led a workshop on Chinese calligraphy a few weeks ago, which we greatly enjoyed. It was not only an opportunity to learn but to experi…

Applications are sought for three Research Associates to join the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS), directed by Professor Josephine Quinn. Starting no later than 1 October 2027, you wil...

Alt: You Must Not Read From The Book! - GIF scene from the 1999 version of The Mummy.

I’m always very interested to see renderings of papyrus rolls in ancient art, whether it is in fresco, manuscript illumination, or carved stone. When it comes to stone reliefs or statues, one…

Memory of the kings of Bia/Urartu: inscribed royal bowls from Western Asia

We 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…

For 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...

Grapholinguistics and Its Applications