The Vault — Writing and Printing _□✕

Writing and Printing

Cretan hieroglyphs

Cretan hieroglyphs
Cretan hieroglyphs

Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era. It predates Linear A by about a century, but the two writing systems continued to be used in parallel for most of their history. As of 2026, it is undeciphered.

Also on this shelf

Bamum script.

A (Cyrillic).

See also

Uncatalogued shelf

Text from Wikipedia; plate via Wikimedia Commons. Text CC BY-SA 4.0; plate freely licensed (see Commons). Source record. Images and catalogue data are reproduced from open-access collections.

Depth 10
Shelf fa48fff67f5b6d
25,934 catalogued holdings
3 ways on