The Digital Library of Inscriptions Documents Inscriptions from Sinai
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Within the Digital Library of Inscriptions project, the BA Writings and Scripts Center documented some Arabic inscriptions found in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt’s Eastern gate.
The valleys in Sinai are considered open museums displaying the development of writing and inscriptions, especially Arabic ones dating to the period from the first to the third centuries Hijri/ the seventh to the nineteenth centuries A.D., and including some extinct writings and languages such as the Nabataean, Thamudic and Ancient Greek. The Center has documented around 180 Arabic inscriptions from the first to the sixth centuries Hijri/ the seventh to the twelfth century A.D.
The Writings and Scripts Center has also documented the most significant scripts in Syria, around 100 scripts from Maghreb and Andalusia, more than 850 scripts from Mecca, and almost 90 scripts from Oman.
The Digital Library of Inscriptions is a digital archive of writings across the ages making it available to scholars and the public at large in an online user friendly platform using hands-on applications of documenting cultural heritage.