Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Discover the surprising "orthographic genealogy" that connects the cursive loops of Arabic to the geometric scripts of India. This post analyzes how the ancient Aramaic abjad traveled the Silk Road…
Before the 8th century, European handwriting was a chaotic mess of illegible styles that stifled communication. Discover how Charlemagne and his monks standardized writing with "Carolingian Minuscule", the direct ancestor…
In the early 20th century, Ludwig Sütterlin designed a unique handwriting script that became the standard in German schools, only to be abruptly banned by the Nazis in 1941. This…
A scribe's error in a single manuscript can be so influential it gets copied for centuries, becoming the "correct" version. Journey into the world of paleography and discover the linguistic…
Teaching a computer to read is simple, but what if the text is a 2,000-year-old, fragmented manuscript written in an archaic script? The digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls presents…
Before the printing press, every book was a handmade original, and every scribe made mistakes. Far from being mere blemishes, these scribal "bloopers" are a treasure trove for historians and…