This open access book looks exciting: Mesoamerican Narratives at the British Museum: Ancient Writing, Contemporary Voices www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

A new VIEWS blog post after a lovely visit to an event about John Baskerville at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social, musing on type design, the craft behind printing and a bit of classical allusion. viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/t...

Just been sent this: my book is on display in the Bodleian art and archaeology library!

Two questions for everyone on two topics: Classics: If you wanted to give someone an easy introduction to Cicero vs Catilina, is there an obvious online resource you would point them to? Wikipedia tells is so boringly.

London art residency opportunity for Palestinian artists (from anywhere in the world), apply by January 12. www.gasworks.org.uk/opportunitie...

Alphabetum - this looks amazing, go if you can!

I knew about this website with Libyco-Berber texts but never looked at it in detail. It is wonderful! libyca-project.com/map.html

Breaking news: The new, revised, updated Ogham in 3D website is now live: ogham.celt.dias.ie Choose "inscriptions" in the menu.

By special request: A Safaitic-Greek bilingual inscription, demonstrating the transcription of interdentals and all other sorts of fun things. @bnuyaminim.bsky.social @maartenkossmann.bsky.social @lameensouag.bsky.social Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...

We are delighted to welcome Xu Yanru as our new research associate in October. Yanru has extensive interests in Chinese and Egyptian writing, but at VIEWS she will pick up her previous work on southern Chinese minority scripts. Read more on the blog: viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/e...

I have two online events coming up next month, one talk and one course! Oct 16: An online talk version of my Abjad Numerals workshop, where I'll cover their history & how to use them. We'll do live exercises to properly integrate this ancient system. 1/2 www.arabbritishcentre.org.uk/whatson/when...

Announcing the new ELP! 🎉⁠ A redesigned online space to: 🌱 Strengthen language revitalization worldwide⁠ 🗣️ Share knowledge and stories⁠ 💡 Find learning resources, guidance, and ideas for your language work⁠ 🌏️ Connect across borders and boundaries⁠ 💬 All in 9 languages!⁠ endangeredlanguages.com

Reading about this has opened up some fascinating minority script rabbit holes, specifically related to Chinook writing and the Kamloops Wawa: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloop...

When you were typesetting late at night somewhere in a poorly-lit print shop in 1702 Germany, and woke up to notice that you fucked up ...

My son Ben just did one alphabet completely dextroverse (L>R) and one completely sinistroverse (R>L)! He usually does boustrophedon - clearly this is deliberate experimentation 🥰 This is so cool for my research!

N4 Kanji Book is released! It's free! Hey! You! Do you like #kanji? Are you studying #Japanese? Here's some free kanji practice for you! It's got kanji! It's got awkward sentences which force a single kanji into them over and over! Download it here: wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/n...

We happened on a wonderful little exhibition of northern Nigerian leatherwork at the @fitzmuseum.bsky.social today while attending the family friendly drop-in. Exquisite workmanship, well worth a visit. I'll put a link to their blog posts on it in the first comment.

This Iron Age Levantine seal clearly shows the TARDIS in the vortex on the back. Specifically the Tom Baker title sequence.

The link isn't working for me for some reason but this one does www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

So exciting! Get in touch with Tim if you want to meet up with him, he is the most excellent person to know.

So excited seeing the abstracts come in for our conference, Writing As Visual Engagement! The deadline is this Friday (5th September) so there is still time! viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-v...

Glagolitic! On a tram!

I've had an Idea, and I'm just hoping nobody else has thought of it. But it's about an inscription that has huge amounts of scholarship written about it so checking won't be fun 😭

Circumstances are forcing me to move, downsize, and sell off some of my Endangered Alphabets merch at fire sale prices. Keep checking at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/08/25/m... to see what I'm making available. Thanks!

My son who is nearly 2 loves the alphabet (the Latin alphabet since that's what he's exposed to mostly) and makes the best boustrophedon abecedaria 🤩 These are all from today when he spent an hour and a half doing this instead of running around outside!

SEI blog post on this year's wonderful research fellows: Febri Muhammad Nasrullah (working on Kerinci, Bima, Sumbawa, Ende in Indonesia), Julie Sayo (Kulitan in the Philippines) and Jordan Williams (Nsibidi in Nigeria and Cameroon - and beyond). sei.berkeley.edu/2025/08/21/i...

Kambai Akau and Joshua Jacob Nzamah tell us about the Akai script in our latest post: viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/a...

A new Cambridge Element volume on Linear A by Ester Salgarella, free to download for a limited window - grab it now! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Yes, it looks really strange to me, here is one printed in Japan

I know lots of you who work on the ancient and medieval worlds will be interested in this conference organised by @beatricepestarino.bsky.social - it focuses on developing policy recommendations and contributing to sustainability goals. Please share widely! lessonsfromthepast.info

An interview and article on the use of human hair in khipus and the social status of their makers - featuring new research by VIEWS friend Sabine Hyland and VIEWS visiting fellow Kit Lee. www.npr.org/2025/08/13/n...

And here's the top of fol. 133r, with Cynewulf's runic signature.

I thought I couldn't love this project any more than I did already, but here's a post that leads with project members' new kidlets and *then* announces the fellows for the coming year. ♥️

The next year is looking exciting for the VIEWS project! Read about our new visiting fellows, along with other VIEWS news, on our blog. viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/v...

I sadly never had a chance to meet Andrew West, but his wide-ranging scholarship and fieldwork has had a huge impact on writing studies, including minority scripts. And if you didn't know his work on ogam, read more here:

Is there any truth to this diagram? What does AI, which can't write, say about handwriting? Join my regular discussion group and bring pencil, paper or a sample of your handwriting! This Sunday, August 17th at noon EST. Free registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A lovely thread for thinking about adaptations of writing systems in general and early Japanese in particular.

One cool bit of type design and one unfortunate one. #typography

It’s obviously an A like here:

This volume is such a pleasure to work with!

A lovely article about the use of Nsibidi today: rpublc.com/vol8-no4/the...

I mentioned that we have a conference coming up, right? Just over three weeks left to submit proposals! And we're very friendly 😁 viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-v...

One month to go. The completely revised 𝓞𝓰𝓱𝓪𝓶 𝓲𝓷 3𝓓 website, created by the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project, will be launched on 12 Sept. as part of the Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge (Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages) conference in @ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social. @researchireland.ie @ukri.org /1

The letter Y gets grief for spelling both vowels and a consonant (e.g. 'by' vs 'yes'), but U and I are similarly equivocal by standing for consonants in words like 'quick' and 'spaniel'.

The earliest Sanskrit-language inscription from Southeast Asia is this stele found in Võ Cạnh village in what is now Southern Vietnam. Written in Gupta script, it dates to sometime between the 2nd-5th centuries.

Ever wonder how a script is created--not a conscript for a book or a TV series but a script intended to serve a specific language community? Check out Kambai Akau's account at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th... , and may it serve as encouragement to others with similar hopes and ambitions.

Pages of a Quranic manuscript of the Attawari Tuaregs from Niger The representation of dromedary and horse are not common in this type of manuscript

⚠️ Seminar announcement: in semester 2 of the new academic year (Feb-May 2026), I will be teaching a 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 (SG648) in the Dept. of Early Irish (@ceilteachomn.bsky.social) at Maynooth University. Guests from outside are very welcome. More info ⬇️

New Cherokee fonts developed by Chris Skillern (@tulseytype.bsky.social‬) and Osage fonts developed in collaboration with Dr. Jessica Harjo, which after five years of community-partnered research, marks a complete Indigenous North American Type collection! www.typotheque.com/blog/novembe...

A fascinating exploration of Chinese reception of Egyptian antiquity by our visiting fellow Tian Tian!