Hieroglyphs were used for most of the surviving forms of written communication during the Old and Middle Egyptian eras, at least for official documents; hieratic was already being used for day-to-day administrative needs during the Old Kingdom. Religious texts during the Demotic era were also ty...
The glyphs in all phases of the paintings were originally outlined in black or dark brown, although in many cases this has decayed to a red-brown or pinkish hue. Some have plain interior spaces or are decorated with light brown highlights, but most are filled with solid areas of yellow ...
Anatolian languages, extinct Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages spoken inAnatoliafrom sometime in the 3rdmillenniumbceuntil the early centuries of the present era, when they were gradually supplanted. By the late 20th century the term was most commonly used to designate the so-called An...
Maya,Mesoamerican Indiansoccupying a nearlycontinuousterritory in southernMexico,Guatemala, and northernBelize. In the early 21st century some 30Mayan languageswere spoken by more than five million people, most of whom were bilingual inSpanish. Before theSpanish conquest of Mexico and Central America, ...