Archaeological excavations in the sites of the Indus Valley civilization (2500-1900 BCE) in Pakistan and northwestern India have unearthed a large number of artifacts with inscriptions made up of hundreds of distinct signs. To date, there is no generally accepted decipherment of these sign sequences, and there have been suggestions that the signs could be non-linguistic. Here we apply complex n...

Calligraphy is an understudied aspect of the reception Chinese art in early modern Europe. visitors to Middelburg (1601) and Amsterdam (1654) first demonstrated it as a cultural practice. Other written samples circulated Dutch Republic, emporium for goods. This article focuses on previously unknown participant this exchange: Anna Maria van Schurman, Europe’s female university student, who had m...

Islamic Religious Education aims to form the personality of students in accordance with law who believes and upholds monotheism.Many methods learning can be used help educators achieve goals education, but rarely use works art or practice using these terms religious one which is calligraphy Calligraphy included fine writing beautifully where adjusted predetermined rules. In addition, course, it...

Based on the smooth implementation and promotion of cultural embellish Xinjiang project, calligraphy, one essence traditional culture, is an important part promoting Party's governance strategy. Vigorously carrying forward excellent Chinese literature particularly in border areas to strengthen consciousness building a strong community nation. I tried carry out research work Runjiang project sou...

We examine how multispectral imaging can be used to document and improve reading of ancient inscriptions. The research focuses on ostraca, texts written in ink on ceramic potsherds. Three corpora of Hebrew ostraca dating to the Iron Age II were imaged in visible and near infrared light using a state-ofthe-art commercial spectral imager. To assess the quality of images, we used a new quality eva...

We present the detailed modeling of the hairy brush used typically in Chinese calligraphy. The complex model, which includes also a model for the ink and the paper, covers the various stages of the brush going through a calligraphy process. The model relies on the concept of writing primitives, which are the smallest units of hair clusters, to reduce the load on the simulation. Each such primit...

The paper presents the corpus of Inscriptions Georgia, a result PhD research project at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. database, built using EpiDoc Front-End Services (EFES) platform, combines editions hundreds inscriptions unearthed in and published print during 18th-20th centuries. outlines main issues addressed creation database encoding inscriptions. It illustrates core features c...

The Development of the Greek Alphabet within the Chronology of the ANE Andrew Cross University of Calgary November 29, 2009 The transition from a pictogram based writing system to the alphabet transformed societies by bringing literacy to the masses. Pictogram based writing systems such as Egyptian hieroglyphics used more than 400 signs to represent syllables or objects, many of which had mult...