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Matuww Scripts
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Matuww is a project involving linguistics, history, and art on the phylogenetic relationships of writing scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs, showing how connected we are as humans.
𓏞 Project link: matuww.com
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Matuww Scripts @matuww.bsky.social · Oct 20
The goal of maˈtʼuww is to portray the phylogenetic relationship of #Egyptian hieroglyphs and her descendant scripts, and allow a visual comparison between letters, while backing this up with evidence wherever possible.

#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#matuww
matuww.bsky.social
New #commission #art joins the #gallery of #matuww!

Many thanks to Daria for depicting #Ukrainians, who are #Cyrillic script users!

Learn more about the Cyrillic #alphabet here:
tinyurl.com/3p92wvs3

Check out Daria here:
tinyurl.com/4jkaua3h
February 8, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Did Viking Age rune-carvers have distinct 'handwriting'? #NationalHandwritingDay ✍️
Experienced rune-carvers had their own styles and techniques, allowing researchers to pinpoint runestones to the specific carvers who made them using 3D-scanning.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
3D-model of a section of a runestone, the Læborg-stone, which reads: þurui : trutnik : sina ‘Thyra, his queen’.
January 23, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#OnThisDay - 19 January - in 30 BC the Caesarion Stela was written. The inscription details a contract agreement between linen manufacturers and a guild of embalmers, concerning the cult of the Apis Bull. #Egypt #History 🏺

Image: British Museum (EA1325). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Round-topped sandstone stela with a decorative frieze showing Caesarion offering to deities.
January 19, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#OnThisDay - 19 January - in AD 379 Theodosius was elevated to the rank of 'Augustus' with the approval of Gratian, taking responsibility for the Eastern Empire. #AncientHistory 🏺

Image: RIC IX Constantinople 71A; Münzkabinett Berlin (18268558). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Obverse of a Roman solidus: Bust of Theodosius I, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed, right. Reverse of a Roman solidus: Constantinopolis, helmeted, head right, seated facing, on throne ornamented with lions' heads, holding sceptre and shield inscribed VOT/X/MVLT/XV, right foot on prow.
January 19, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Stone artefact from pre-Islamic Tell Abraq (United Arab Emirates) with an Aramaic inscription #EpigraphyTuesday
Aramaic was spoken in the Characene Kingdom (modern Iraq), indicating commercial connections across the Gulf.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Piece of grey-brown stone engraved with an inscription in Aramaic.
January 20, 2026 at 10:22 AM
matuww.bsky.social
#Umbrian is an #Etruscan derived #alphabet used in central #Italy, in 4-1 c. BCE.

This was used to write the #extinct Umbrian #language, which is #Italic and part of the #Sabellic subfamily.

Full page: tinyurl.com/2hnscu63
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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kristelzilmer.bsky.social
One favourite among runologists is this inscription with ciphered runes mentioning a carver “most rune-skilled west of the sea” kulturarvsdata.se/uu/srdb/9cfa...
Runic inscription inside Maeshowe.
October 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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ccurran.bsky.social
Oh! There's a bilinear half-uncial-shaped g in the Book of Durrow! (TCD, MS 57, fol. 86r)
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
Initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51:

'Quid gloriaris in malitia qui potens es in iniquitate?'

BL Add MS 36929; The 'Psalter of Cormac'; 1275-1325 CE; Ireland; f.60r
December 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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calthalas.bsky.social
For all the newcomers interested in book and manuscript history here is a handy starter pack

go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo
January 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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ccurran.bsky.social
When I started BretPal (almost two years ago 😪), I had one very clear research goal: to establish parameters for Breton Caroline minuscule
(Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 85)
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
matuww.bsky.social
#Oscan is an #Etruscan derived #alphabet used in Southern #Italy, in 4-1 c. BCE.

This was used to write the #extinct Oscan #language, which is #Italic and part of the #Sabellic subfamily.

Full page: tinyurl.com/ye267ua8
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
January 13, 2026 at 3:22 PM
matuww.bsky.social
#Camunian is an #Etruscan derived #alphabet used in the Central #Alps, modern day #Italy, in 5 . BCE - 50 CE.

This was used to write the #extinct Camunic #language, which is either #Tyrsenian or #Celtic.

Full page: tinyurl.com/mvvrkrn9
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
January 12, 2026 at 10:26 AM
matuww.bsky.social
#Rhaetic is an #Etruscan derived #alphabet used in the Eastern #Alps in 5-1 c. BCE.

This was used to write the #extinct Rhaetic #language, which is #Tyrsenian and is related to Etruscan.

Full page: tinyurl.com/2dx2sph5
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
January 11, 2026 at 10:22 AM
matuww.bsky.social
South #Picene is an #Etruscan derived #alphabet used in east central #Italy, in 6-3 c. BCE.

This was used to write the #extinct South Picene #language, which is #Italic and part of the #Sabellic subfamily.

Full page: tinyurl.com/bdund5zx
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
January 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
matuww.bsky.social
#Venetic is an #Etruscan derived #alphabet used in North-eastern #Italy, in 6-1 c. BCE.

This was used to write the #extinct Venetic #language, which is likely either #Italic or #Celtic.

Full page: tinyurl.com/mpz5td2v
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
January 6, 2026 at 10:31 AM
matuww.bsky.social
#Lepontic is an #Etruscan derived #alphabet used in the Southern #Alps, modern day #Switzerland and #Italy, in 6-1 c. BCE.

This was used to write the #extinct Lepontic #language, which is continental #Celtic.

Full page: tinyurl.com/mu3cz7va
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
January 4, 2026 at 11:43 AM
matuww.bsky.social
#Faliscan is an #Etruscan derived #alphabet used in central #Italy in 7-2 c. BCE.

This was used to write the #extinct Faliscan #language, which is closely related to #Latin.

Full page: tinyurl.com/2yerpar5
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
January 2, 2026 at 8:59 PM
matuww.bsky.social
#Etruscan was written in central #Italy in 8 - 1 c BCE.

The #alphabet was adopted from the #Euboean variant of Archaic #Greek, which was used by Greeks in #Cumae

Etruscan developed into multiple Old Italic scripts.

Full page: tinyurl.com/4j38tsve
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww
January 1, 2026 at 10:57 PM
matuww.bsky.social
Not #matuww related but something I did for fun when I was a #medical #student:

Made handouts to teach how to take a #history from a patient in Middle #Ancient #Egyptian for my med school's #language and #culture soc

Likely not 100% correct but that's the best I could do from J P Allen's textbook!
December 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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adammarkham.bsky.social
The Divine Egypt exhibition at the Met in NYC is filled with a beautiful mix of social zooarchaeological wonders. Dozens of different animal deities giving up just a little of their meaning. This is a falcon-headed Horus sharing a throne with King Haremhab from about 1300 BCE.
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A stone statue of two barefooted persons sitting on a throne. One has a falcons head. Both wear high hats or crowns with cobra heads represented. The arm of bird-headed deity appears to be placed protectively behind the mortal.
December 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Labour strikes aren’t new!

The first recorded strike in history took place in Egypt some 3,200 years ago!

The ‘Strike Papyrus’ records that tomb workers of King Ramesses III downed tools over pay and conditions circa 1157 BC!

Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows the front side (recto) of an ancient Egyptian administrative document written by the scribe Amunnakht in hieratic script (cursive writing of hieroglyphics). It is written in black ink on papyrus by the scribe Amunnakht. The papyrus is now a yellowy-brown colour and is worn in places. The document is known as the ‘Strike Papyrus’ and recounts that in November of Year 29 of the reign of Ramesses III, the royal tomb workers of Deir el-Medina stopped work for the first time and spent several days at the Theban necropolis in the temples of Tuthmosis III and Ramesses II. They demanded that the grain ratians for their work be distributed, and the authorities subsequently disbursed the grain rations. However, a few days later, the workers went on strike again, this time finding refuge in the temple of Seti I. Their refusal to retum to work stemmed fram the precarious working conditions, a situation they wanted to bring directly to the pharaoh. The last strike documented here was in January of the following year.
December 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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aboutlinguistics.bsky.social
Imagine reading text with no spaces, no punctuation, and all caps! 

That was ancient Greek scriptio continua (‘continuous script’). Words weren’t visually separated because reading was mostly aloud.

Spaces appeared by the 8th–9th century.

#linguistics #greek #reading
December 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
matuww.bsky.social
Another sneak peek of what's next on #matuww!
Old #Italic #writing scripts.

We're going to cover #Etruscan and scripts derived from it.
There's a lot to go through and eventually #Latin - which we are all so familiar with.

Stay tuned.

#maps
#history
#linguistics
December 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
matuww.bsky.social
A new update on the #Greek script page:

We decided to support Juan-José Marcos, who we relied on his work on the #evolution of the Greek script, by registering and including his Greek #Paleography #fonts on the page!

Learn more here: tinyurl.com/3rp2r49p

#writingscripts
#language
#educational
December 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM