Greece

5 scripts

Greek Alphabet

AlphabetGreece800 BC

The ancestor of both Latin and Cyrillic scripts. 24 letters from alpha to omega. The first...

Linear B

SyllabaryGreece1450 BC

The oldest known form of Greek writing. Deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris, an architec...

Linear A

UndecipheredGreece1700 BC

The writing of the Minoan civilization on Crete, used from about 1800 to 1450 BC. Its stru...

Cretan Hieroglyphs

UndecipheredGreece1900 BC

A pictographic script of Middle Minoan Crete, contemporary with the earliest Linear A. Kno...

Phaistos Disc

UndecipheredGreece1700 BC

A fired clay disc from Minoan Crete stamped with 241 tokens of 45 distinct pictorial signs...