Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Andrew Robin

Bengal Script, a modern descendant of Brahmi script, on a film poster designed by Satyajit Ray, 1960 The title is Devi (The Goddess). The Bengall script uses a mixture of syllabic letters and vowels arranged in an order based on the determined by Indian phoneticians well over 2000 years ago. Some 200 Indian scripts used today derive from the Brahmi script. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script self.gutenberg.org/articles/eng/Brahmi_script

This inscription, cut in limestone by Ralph Beyer in the 1980s, is from "Sadhana: The realisation of Life by Rabindranath Tagore (1913) www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6842 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Beyer

The Scholar prepares to write. his paperweight is a carved lion; before him is a bowl of water with a ladling spoon, inkstick and inkstone with ink ground in it; on his left is a juge of wine, cup and a citron in a blow.

Runes are very old letters which Germanic people used before they started using Latin letters in the Middle Ages. In its broadest sense, the word runes can mean any cryptic letters, but it usually means the alphabets used by Scandinavian people from about the year 150 CE to the Middle Ages.

Runes (Proto-Germanic *rūnō 'rune'; *rūna-stabaz 'runic letter') are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter.

Etruscan ‘bucchero’ jug, 6th century BC, Inscribed with the Etruscan alphabet. The Etruscans borrowed the alphabets from the Greeks, altered it, and transmitted it to the Romans. Today most nations use an alphabet

The Rock at Behistun, Iran, showing the inscription that led to the decipherment of cuneiform. They are located more than 300 feet (100 metres) above the road en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_the_Great

Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), the first man to draw accurately the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis. Niebuhr was an indefatigable traveller and scholar, who returned alone from India to Denmark, via Persepolis. He published his first drawings in 1772. Careful study enabled him to show that there were three different cuneiform scripts at Persepolis