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Inscription dating to the 1st millennium bce
Painting of a person with a headscarf reading a newspaper, with blue and white text overlaid reading: How the middle class learned to read.
Linear B Ancient Egyptian illustration from the Book of the Dead showing Anubis weighing the soul of the scribe Ani, with gods seated above and hieroglyphic text throughout. Magnificat
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Inscription dating to the 1st millennium bce
Stone inscribed with ancient Brahmi script, the forerunner of most Indian scripts,...
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Linear B
Detail of a clay tablet with Linear B script, Pylos, Greece, 13th century bce;...
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Illustration and hieroglyphics from the Papyrus of Ani, in the Egyptian Book of the...
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Initial letter of the Magnificat, from the Book of Hours of Gian Galeazzo Visconti,...
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