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Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets

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21st and 22nd March 2017

Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

This conference, the second in the Understanding Relations Between Scripts series, focused on the development of alphabetic writing systems in the later second and earlier first millennia BC.

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Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a European Research Council funded project hosted at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge.

We are working on new approaches to the history of writing, with a focus on writing systems of the ancient Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and Levant (c.2000-600 BC). Read more on our 'About' page.

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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 677758).

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