Prof. Gene Buckley
Please note: Since these materials are from a semester that has now ended, not all of the links continue to function.
See also the course description, syllabus, and outline.
The following are some links on the Web related to the content of this course. As always, be careful about information you find on a web page which is not sponsored by a source you know to be reliable. (Inclusion of a link here does not necessarily constitute endorsement of its contents on my part!) If you come across an interesting site, be sure to let me know> so I can include it here; also please let me know if any of these links have expired.
General
All the Scripts in
the World
Ancient
Scripts of the World
Timelines of
Art History with links to many other sites
Virtual Library:
Linguistics
International
Phonetic Alphabet
Fonts
Yamada Font Archive
Dr. Berlin's Foreign
Font Archive (for Windows)
Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
Sumerian language page (includes lexicon; ignore claims about sound
symbolism and "invention" of the language)
Akkadian language page
Akkadian linguistics
Abzu index of
Resources for the Study of Ancient Mesopotamia
History of Mesopotamia
Quick survey of
Mesopotamian history and civilization
Exhibit on the
Royal Tombs of Ur at the University Museum
Egypt
A Short Introduction to Hieroglyphs
Ancient Egyptian Language Resources
Abzu index of
Resources for the Study of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt Resources
Egyptology at Cambridge University
Exhibit on
Egyptian mummies at the University Museum
Mesoamerica
Decipherment
A very nice overview of
Mayan Hieroglyphic
Writing
The extensive
Mayan
Epigraphic Database Project, including over 1000 pictures of
glyphs
Exhibit on the Maya city
Tikal at the University Museum
Maya archaeology
China
Basic survey of the
Chinese writing system (by the Taiwanese government)
Excellent
Chinese
character dictionary (searchable by English, pinyin, radicals, etc.)
Excellent dictionary of the
origins and component elements of Chinese characters
The Chinese rotunda at the University Museum
Japan
Survey of the
Japanese writing system
General information about the
Japanese language
Nicely animated demonstration of kanji stroke order
A Japanese altar in the
Buddhism exhibit at the University Museum
Korea
An introduction to the
Korean language
The basics of
hangul, the world's most logical writing system
Linear B
Linear B and Mycenean society
Outline of
early Greek history
Semitic alphabets
The
Arabic alphabet with pronunciations
The
Hebrew alphabet with modern Israeli pronunciations
The
Phoenician alphabet, with cute graphics and historical development
(though the facts are not entirely accurate)