Bronze Age writing systems

ancient syllabary for Mycenaean Greek used ca. 1400 BCE – 1200 BCE

undeciphered writing system from Crete

Hieratic (; ) is the name given to a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BCE until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE. It was primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus.

script, short strings of symbols associated with the Indus Valley Civilization

Middle Bronze Age script

writing system

syllabary script, undeciphered, used on the island of Cyprus during the late Bronze Age (ca. 1550–1050 BCE)

writing system

limestone tablet with proto-cuneiform Sumerian inscriptions

undeciphered writing system

handwritten Egyptian hieroglyphs

writing system from Elam

language

script used for writing Elamite language in the early Bronze Age