Early Inscriptions

• Schaffner Library: History of Ancient Egypt -- course resources by instructor Peter Piccione

• ArchNet: Ethnoarchaeology and Ethnohistory

• The astonishing creativity of prehistoric people

• The Cherokee Syllabary (image only)

• Discovery of a Palaeolithic painted cave at Vallon - Pont-d'Arc ( Ard�che )

• Jerusalem in Old Maps and Views

• Mayan Hieroglyphs and Syllabary, by Nancy McNelly

• The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project, which offers a growing Glyphs Catalogue, from the University of Virginia

• Rock Art and Petroglyphs in Valcamonica, by Andrea Arca

• Worldwide Rock Art Links, by Andrea Arca

• Vikings, Runes, and Norse -- a part of Labyrinth, a web server for medieval studies (sponsored by Georgetown University)

 The Spoken Word: Language & Story

• AFROAM-L Griot Online [Afrinet]

• Bullfinch's Mythology [gopher]

• Encylopedia Mythica, by M.F. Lindemans

• Folklife Exhibit, Library of Congress -- American folk music and folklore

• Legendary Site of the Week, by Arthur Goldstuck

• Myths and Legends from Around The World, an amazing, encylopedic site, by Christopher B. Siren

• Native Languages -- from the NativeWeb Project

• Welcome to Mythtext -- Mythology from All Over The World

 Ancient and Early Modern Manuscripts

• Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Exhibition -- Introduction, from the Library of Congress Exhibit

• Duke Papyrus Archive

• A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek -- features illuminated manuscripts

• Images of Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece -- compiled by Andrew J. Wiesner

• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web -- from Brown University

• Labyrinth: Medieval Studies Infoserver -- from Georgetown University

• Manuscripts (Paleography, Codicology) -- from Labyrinth, Georgetown University

• Papyrology Home Page -- by John D. Muccigrosso

• Some manuscript images of the technology of the word in the Middle Ages -- by James O'Donnell

• Hypertext and the English Renaissance: Studies in Media Transformation -- a collection of essays and other information sources, by John Tolva

 Modern Orality & Related Resources

• Beyond The Orality/Literacy Dichotomy: James Joyce And The Pre-History Of Cyberspace, by Donald F. Theall

• See also Biases of the Ear and Eye, by Daniel Chandler

• The Collective Memory Palace -- by Serena Lin

• The Common Place MOO: Orality and Literacy in Virtual Reality, by Don Langham

• Critique of Ong/Orality & Literacy, by Noam Maitless

• Don't Spread that Hoax!, by Charles Hymes

• The Fate of the Notion of Canon in the Electronic Age, by Robert Fowler

• Fourth World Documentation Project Home Page

• How the Secondary Orality of the Electronic Age Can Awaken Us to the Primary Orality of Antiquity: or What Hypertext Can Teach Us About the Bible with Reflections on the Ethical and Political Issues of the Electronic Frontier, by Robert Fowler

• Literate Consciousness and Music Criticism, by Steve Kuhn

• Native American Law Resources

• Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture, by Carolyn Cooper [Duke Univ. Press]

• La oralidad escrita: Sobra la inscripci�n literaria del discurso oral [Written Orality: On the Literary Inscription of Oral Discourse], by Jorge Marcone [in Spanish; English introduction to his project is also available]

• Orality and Hypertext: An Interview with Ted Nelson

• Orality, Literacy, and Textual Communities In The Middle Ages, by Thomas W. Eland

• Unspeakable Visions: Appendix A - The Orality of the Beat Writers, by Michael Hayward

• Urban Legends Archive

 Other Related References

• Ancient World Web -- A meta-index for sites on the ancient world

• Israel Archaeology from the Air