Ancient Writing Systems
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The Marsiliana Tablet Abecedarium
The Marsiliana Tablet Abecedarium (700 BCE) The earliest Estruscan abecedarium, the Marsiliana d’Albegna tablet, which dates to c. 700 VCE. (View Larger) It is not clear whether the process of adaptation of the Old Italic or Etruscan alphabet from the Greek alphabet took place in Italy in the city of Cumae, the first Greek colony on the mainland of
Read moreEtruscan Civilisation
Etruscan 8th – 1st century BC edited by: Daniele F. Maras (translation by Melanie Rockenhaus) Etruscan is the oldest writing system among those of the pre-Roman populations of the Italian peninsula. The history of its development is directly connected to the birth of western alphabetic writing systems, codified beginning from the Phoenician model with Greek mediation. In reality, it
Read moreARMENIAN ISSUE, CLAIMS AND HISTORICAL FACTS
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The so-called “Armenian Question” is generally thought of as having begun in the second half of the nineteenth century. One can easily point to the Russo-Turkish war (1877 -78) and the Congress of Berlin (1878), which concluded the war as marking the emergence of this question as a problem in Europe. In fact, however, one must really go
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