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21-22 March 2017. This conference, the second in the Understanding Relations Between Scripts series, focuses on the development of alphabetic writing systems in the later second and earlier first millennia BC.

Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets

21st and 22nd March 2017

Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

This conference, the second in the Understanding Relations Between Scripts series, focuses on the development of alphabetic writing systems in the later second and earlier first millennia BC. Attendance at the conference is free of charge, but please note that places are limited and registration is therefore necessary. If you would like to book a place at the conference, please register by sending an e-mail to crews@classics.cam.ac.uk. Enquiries can also be sent to the same address.

Please visit our website for further information:

https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/urbs2/

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