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Why We All Use the Latin Alphabet
English and Czech and Swahili, oh my!
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Devanagari writing in the Bhagavata Purana
Page from a dispersed Bhagavata Purana, ink and opaque watercolor on paper, from...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eisenberg, 1983 (1983.507.4); www.metmuseum.org
pictorial signs
Some of the pictorial signs used at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles,...
Courtesy of the International Olympic Committee
Roman mosaic
Roman dog mosaic from the threshold of a house in Pompeii, “Cave canem” (“Beware...
© Grahammoore999/Dreamstime.com
papyrus loan contract
Legal text of a loan contract, 99 bce; Greek...
Courtesy of The John Rylands University Library of Manchester