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Writing systems

• Egyptian:
  • A LaTeX periment of hieroglyphic typesetting
  • Ancient Egyptian Language Email List
  • Egyptologist's Electronic Forum
  • Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research (CCER)
  • Egyptological computing developments
  • Altägyptisches Wörterbuch
  • Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae
• Other:
  • ETANA
  • The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
  • The Akkadian Language
  • Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
  • Ancient Scripts of the World

My own work on Ancient Egyptian.

Books about writing systems

• The World's Writing Systems. Edited by P.T. Daniels and W. Bright. Oxford University Press, 1996.
• H. Haarmann. Universalgeschichte der Schrift. Campus Verlag, 1991. (In German.)
• Reading the Past. Introduced by J.T. Hooker. University of California Press, 1990.
• A. Robinson. The Story of Writing. Thames and Hudson, 1995.
• A. Robinson. Lost Languages. McGraw-Hill, 2002.
• G. Sampson. Writing Systems. Stanford University Press, 1985.
• R. Sproat. A Computational Theory of Writing Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• J.F. Harris and S.K. Stearns. Understanding Maya Inscriptions - A Hieroglyph Handbook. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1997.
• S.D. Houston. Maya Glyphs. University of California Press, 1989.

• R. Werner. Kleine Einführung ins Hieroglyphen-Luwische. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1991. (In German.)

Books on the related subject of historical number systems

• G. Ifrah. Universalgeschichte der Zahlen. Campus Verlag, 1991. (Translated to German from the French original "Histoire Universelle des Chiffres", Editions Seghers, 1981.)

• G. Robins and C. Shute. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus: an ancient Egyptian text. The Trustees of the British Museum, 1987.