• Cave Paintings (hint: click on the pictures of the cave paintings to make them bigger)
  • About the Research into Cave Painting in France
  • Chauvet Cave
  • La Grotto Cosquer
  • Some History and Backround
  • Cave Painting as Graffiti?
  • Ray's Graffiti Wall (Very cool! -- you can create your own cave painting on a graffiti wall in cyberspace)
  • 24 Hours in Cyberspace: Painting on the Walls of the Digital Cave
  
  

• Cuneiform Writing
  • John Heise's Akkadian Pages -- Everything you ever wanted to know about the Cuneiform writing system
  • More on Cuneiform from The Media History Project
  • Cuneiform & Mathematics
  • Proverbs in Sumerian Cuneiform
  
  

• Hieroglyphics
  • A Short History of Hieroglyphs
  • Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs (slow and sometimes doesn't work -- make sure you enter your name phonetically)
  • Another Site For Writing Your Name in Hieroglyphics (also doesn't work sometimes)
  • Hieroglyph Translator Page (this page really works!!!!!)
  • The Egyptian Book of the Dead (very long)
  • Duke Papyrus Archive
  
  

• The Rosetta Stone
  • A Large Color Picture of the Rosetta Stone
  • A Link to the Rosetta Stone and other interesting sites in Egypt
  • For Information on the Decipherment of the Rosetta Stone -- make sure you go to all the links
  • The Rosetta Stone Coloring Book! (Sorry, I just couldn't resist it)
  
  

• Alphabets & More

  • Ancient Scripts of the World, a really terrific site creted by Lawrence K. Lo
  • Duke Papyrus Library
  • Images of Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the Fifth, Fourth and Third Centuries BCE
  • The First Alphabets
  • Discovering Writing
  • Ancient Scripts of the World
  • All the Scripts of the World
  • The Greek Alphabet
  • Runes
  • A Rune "Correspondence" Course
  • Thoughts on a Phonetic Alphabet
  • The Cherokee Syllabary
  
  
• Scrolls & Codex Books
  • A Timetable
  • Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web -- Some really good definitions of scrolls and codex books here
  • Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Manuscript Books
  • A Site with information on Handmade Parchment & Vellum
  • Making Paper
  • The History the Book and a Guide to the Book Arts
  • The Art of the Book: An On-line Exhibit
  • Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Aztec Manuscripts and more
  • The End of the Book?
  
  

• Illuminated Manuscripts
  • A Brief History of Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Another, more inclusive History of Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Illumination and Color Theory
  • Some manuscript images of the technology of the word in the Middle Ages assembled by James O'Donnell
  • The WebMuseum in Paris is offering an ehibit on Très Riches Heures, which is the classic example of a medieval book of hours.
  • Illuminated Manuscripts in The Electronic Labyrinth
  • Hellenic Ministry of Culture Page offers links to some breath-taking manuscripts
  • The inaugural exhibit at Colophon Gallery focuses on the book as a work of art, both in the twentieth century and historically
  • Manuscript Links -- although not complete, this site offers some wonderful links
  • The Illuminated Books World Exhibition '98: From India to the XXth Century
  • The Book of Kells
  • Information on the Book of Kells
  • The Bibliothèque Nationale de France presents 1,000 Illuminations
  • Regional and Global Characteristics of Illuminated Manuscripts

• Printing Press
  • The History of the Printing Press
  • Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Printed Books An Exhibit of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Related Items at Georgetown University
  • Time Scavengers -- an animated (and very brief) history of the events that led to the invention of the printing press.
  • A Brief Biography of Johannes Gutenberg
  • A Chronology of Media Inventions
  • Letterpress Printing
  • More on Gutenberg and books in the Electronic Labyrinth -- the Labyrinth is a valuable source of information, so look around while you're there
  • The Origins Books and Printing, from the perspective of the Republic of China
  • Bruce Jones's "Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and the Changing World" -- great links!
  • A Brief History of the Sriptorium, courtesy of the Monks of the Monastery of Christ in the Desert -- and check out their whole webpage too!
  • The New York Public Library's Research Guide to the history of books and printing

• The Book
  • A History of the Book Timetable (linked above but worth looking at again)
  • A "museum exhibition" that includes the types of early books
  • A Lecture on the history of the book
  • Jack Lynch's Bibliography and History of the Book
  • A short lecture entitled the "Futures and Histories of the Book"
  • A brief overview of the the history of both the Physical and Textual book
  • More on the development of print technology
  • Bookbinding, a tutorial
  • The Book Arts Gallery
  • A Hundred Highlights in the history of the book from National Library of the Netherlands
  • The Renaissance Dante in Print
  • The Planets and Their Children - A Blockbook of Medieval Popular Astrology
  • The world of Pop-Up Books
  • Tiny Tomes: An exhibition of miniature books
  • Banned Books Online
  • Beaming over a Book from Wired 2.10, October 1994 (new printing)

• Pre-Computer Writing Devices
  • An Exhibition at the National Museum of American History Information Age: People, Information & Technology
  • A Fascinating Look at Handwriting
  • The Classic Typewriter Page
  • GRAPHION'S ONLINE TYPE MUSEUM
  • The History of Typing
  • The Typewriter
  • Down Typwriter Memory Lane
  • The Pen Relief!
  • The Qwerty Connection
  • Yesterday's Office
  • A History of Computing Devices

• The Age of Electronic Writing
  • The Machine That Changed the World
  • A Computer Timeline
  • The Obsolete Computer Museum
  • The Computer History Museum
  • The Virtual Museum of Computing
  • Historic Computer Images
  • The History of Computing
  • The History of Computers
  • General Computing History
  • The Association for History and Computing
  • Past Notable Women of Computing
  • PBS Special The Triumph of the Nerds
  • Digital Moments
  • The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  • Bruce Sterling's History of the Internet
  • A Brief History of the Internet
  • A History of Search Engines
  • All About Hypertext
  • The Future of Libraries

• Other Interesting Sites
  • Etymology site Mark Breitag Found

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