The Story of Communication:

Writing—Websites to Explore

• Rock art: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/2384/
• History of writing: http://www.historian.net/hxwrite.htm
• Egyptian hieroglyphs: http://www.greatscott.com/hiero/
• Sumerian writing: http://www.ancientscripts.com/sumerian.html
• Cuneiform writing: http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html
• Alphabet family tree: http://phoenicia.org/alphabet.html
• The Dead Sea Scrolls: http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html
• Phoenician alphabet: http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/Phoenician_alphabet
• Speech and writing in ancient Greece: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/awiesner/oralit.html
• Greek culture: http://www.culture.gr/
• Libraries of the ancient world: http://www.tulsasda.com/staff/russ/russ/history/libraries/Libraries.htm
• Timetable of writing, books, libraries: http://www.xs4all.nl/~knops/timetab.html
• Interpreting ancient manuscripts: http://www.earlham.edu/~seidti/iam/interp_mss.html
• Medieval writing: http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/writing.htm
• Medieval images about writing: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/class.pictures.html
• Evolution of books and scriptoria: http://www.christdesert.org/noframes/script/history.html
• Literacy history: http://www.historyliteracy.org/
• Locator for literacy programs: http://www.literacydirectory.org/?op=setup&mode=children
• National Center for Family Literacy: http://www.famlit.org/
• Electronic books: http://promo.net/pg/

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