Ancient Writings and Inscriptions

A collection of ancient inscriptions and graffiti, featuring colorful Egyptian hieroglyphics, rock art, and Latin epitaphs on gravestones, highlighting historical artistry.

Tomb of Ramesses III, Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt. reigned from 1186 to 1155 BC and is considered to be the last monarch of the New Kingdom to wield any substantial authority over Egypt. Tomb KV11 is located in the main valley of the Valley of the Kings. The tomb has been open since antiquity, and has been known variously as Bruce's Tomb (named after James Bruce who entered the tomb in 1768) and The Harper's Tomb (due to paintings of two blind harpers in the tomb).

graffitti graffitti on ruins of walls Copyright: xZoonar.com/PhilxMorleyx 1226200

USA, Nevada. Hiko Basin and Range National Monument, White River Narrows, Rock Art

18th century epitaph in Latin on white marble gravestone, incised slab inside the Saint Bavo Cathedral, Sint-Baafs Cathedral, Sint-Baafskathedraal, Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium, Europe

Inscription at jain bastis Halebid Halebidu Hassan Karnataka India Copyright: xSatishxParashar/DinodiaxPhotox

Layers of paper peeling off a wall, Kunming, China Kunming, China

Outdoor, carving or inscription on brick wall with date, historical record or old school exterior. Institution, number engraving and writing on building facade with architecture, origin or signature.

Denkmal zur Erinnerung an die Alte Synagoge in Magdeburg, Monument in memory of the Old Synagogue in Magdeburg

in austalia from the window of a catamaran boat the emergency exit

North America, USA, Wyoming, Guernsey, Oregon Trail Register Cliff Inscription.

Draft Marks Odd Numbers Draft Marks at Ship Hull Copyright: xZoonar.com/MarkoxBericx 10336887

William Clark inscription in the sandstone at Pompeys Pillar National Monument, Montana, USA

USA, Wyoming, Guernsey, Oregon Trail Register Cliff Inscription

England, Hampshire, Winchester, Winchester Cathedral, Jane Austen's Gravestone

Stone Foundation Document 1275 B.C. An account of King Adad-Nirari I victories over the Mitannians.

Romania, Maramures Region, Sighetu Marmatei, Memorial to the Victims of Communism and to the Resistance, housed in former political prison, wall of names

Monumento homenaje a las victimas del 11-M, memorial for the victims of the so-called 11-M bombings of 11 March 2004, designed by FAM Arquitectos y Urbanismo SLP and the Stuttgart engineering company Schlaich, Bergermann and Partner, redesigned Estacion de Puerta de Atocha, Madrid's Atocha rail station, Madrid, Spain, Europe

ABRIGO DE LA ENFERMERIA I (109/3-1R): DETALLE SECTOR A: FIGURAS 1, 2, 3 Y 4.

Fragment of music, fresco, of a Franciscan hymn, Assisi, Umbria, Italy, Europe

CARTELES DE RUTA PARA LOS TRENES. Location: ESTACION DE ATOCHA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Scraped yellow surface of a scratched school bench with carved inscriptions, scribble marks and writing from students as a statement and expression of rebellious youth culture.. Scraped yellow surface of a scratched school bench with carved inscriptions, scribble marks and writing from students as a statement and expression of rebellious youth culture

Gutmannshöhle bei Sigulda, Lettland Gutmannshöhle bei Sigulda, Lettland Copyright: xZoonar.com/HGVorndranx 22394937

Monument to the victims of terrorism (March 11th, 2004), Atocha railway station, Madrid. Spain.

cruces que indican los nombres y las fechas en las que murieron personas de la localidad, víctimas del conflicto armado interno, San Juan Cotzal,departamento del Quiché, Triángulo Ixil, Guatemala, America Central.

Cambodia: Victims of the Khmer Rouge would have had little hope when faced with the barbed wire and bare cement walls at Tuol Sleng, Tuol Sleng (S-21) Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh (2016)

Budapest, ehemaliges Blindeninstitut, heute Schule für behinderte Kinder, Mexikoi ut 60, Bela Lajta 1905-1908 // Budapest, former School for the Blind, today School for disabled children, Mexikoi ut 60, Bela Lajta 1905-1908 *** Budapest, former School for the Blind, today School for disabled children, Mexikoi ut 60, Bela Lajta 1905 1908 Budapest, former School for the Blind, today School for disabled children, Mexikoi ut 60, Bela Lajta 1905 1908

Old inscriptions on inscription rock at El Moro National Monument, New Mexico

Europe, Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, district Bernkastel Wittlich, Mittelmosel, the Moselle, Neumagen-Dhron, high water mark

Close-up of hand and footprints at a theater, Mann´s Chinese Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA

At the site of the barracks of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany, which now houses a residential complex, Cyrillic script signs still remind us of this time. The Group of Soviet Armed Forces in Germany were units of the land and air forces of the Soviet Army stationed in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany from 1954 to 1991

PLANO EN COBRE QUE EXPLICA EL CIRCUITO RECORRIDO POR J F KENNEDY EN EL LUGAR DE SU ASESINATO 22/11/1. Location: EXTERIOR. DALLAS-TEXAS.

North Carolina, Asheville, sidewalk plaque to the writer O. Henry, aka William Sydney Porter, former resident of Asheville

Egipto. Tumba 82 Amenemhat. Está situada en Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, la necrópolis de Tebas en la orilla oeste del Nilo, frente a Luxor, en Egipto.

Hieroglyphic writing. Mit Rahina Open Air Museum. Memphis. Egypt.

Info sign at the town hall, Ottobeuren, Allgaeu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Tumba Amonemhat (53).

Czech Torarollen Museum London Faksimile of the walls from the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague: The inner walls of the synagogue are described with approximately 80,000 names of Czech Jews who did not survive the genocide.

Monument to the victims of terrorism (March 11th, 2004), Atocha railway station, Madrid. Spain.

Ancient stone inscriptions in Singalese language texture. Pollonaruwa, Sri Lanka

Mahnmal gegen Krieg und Faschismus, Monument against War and Fascism, by Alfred Hrdlicka, Albertinaplatz, Wien, Vienna, Austria, Europe

Reproduction of the Rosette Stone deciphered by Champollion, by Joseph Kosuth artist, square des Ecritures, Figeac, Lot, occitanie, France, Europe

plaque commemorating the popular occupation of Sa Dragonera, Sa Dragonera natural park,Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

TABLON DE ANUNCIOS. Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-INTERIOR. MADRID. SPAIN.

Menu board and restaurant in Paris, France

Nomenclator urbano de la "Via de l'Imperi Romà". TARRAGONA. Cataluña.

Russia, Moscow, Arbat Street, Drawings on Pavement

The ruins of CFS Lac St. Denis, Québec, Canada and its graffiti and structural damages.

Base of international border marker on mountain ridge.

Heidelberg, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany, the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, students prison (Studentenkarzer), Old Heidelberg University

Havana, Cuba, UNESCO World Heritage City. Interior of Cuba's oldest print making shop. Old stone used for printing old cigar labels.

Stolpersteine in memory of Jews who fled to Belgium and survived, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Original GDR border post in front of the Mauermuseum Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, federal capital Berlin, Germany, Europe

Memorial wall for returning descendants of survivors at the Last Bath Slavery Site in Assin Manso in the Central Region of southern Ghana in West Africa

Aftermath - Displaced Boats - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-28-42. close-up of NOTICE TO VESSEL OWNER sticker for vessel removal or pollution response. Hurricane Katrina

USA, Wyoming, Guernsey, Oregon Trail Register Cliff Inscription

undefined. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.

Monastic timetable, Abondance, Haute Savoie, France, Europe

Library of writer and french humanist Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592). Detail of inscriptions in the roof-beam. Montaigne Castle. France.

North America, USA, Wyoming, Guernsey, Oregon Trail Register Cliff Inscription.

Tributes written on the ground, during the days following the 22 May 2017, suicide bombing, carried out at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande.

The former site of the editorial office of "China Youth" in Zhuyi Lane (now Lane 66, Danshui Road), Danshui Road, Shanghai. In 1923, the central organ of the Chinese Socialist Youth League and the editorial office of "China Youth" were located here. In 1924, Ren Bishi lived here after returning to Shanghai from the Soviet Union.

Directional sign on the path, Providencia y Santa Catalina, San Andres y Providencia Department, Colombia

Temple of Amenhotep III, Elkab, Egypt. Dedicated mainly to the goddess Nejbed.

Memorial Feldscheune Isenschnibbe Gardelegen, the GDR-era information board commemorates 1016 concentration camp prisoners from many European countries who were murdered there in a field barn on 13 April 1945, Gardelegen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

Nahaufnahme eines historischen Grabsteins auf einem Friedhof in Rural East TX Close up of Historic Headstone in Rural East Texas Cemetery LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/LorixMartinx 23178185

A close-up view of documentation on the lid of a crate left behind by retreating Iraqi forces during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Kuwait (KWT)

Germany, Bavaria, Munich. NS-Dokumentationszentrum Munchen, museum of the Nazi period (Editorial Use Only)

Altefähr, Rügen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, stone with inscription 'Peace in me = Peace in the world'.

Sketch - Toilet soap label John Henry Walker (1831-1899)

1823 sign

Stone tablet with old Croatian writing, fishing village Valun, Cres Island, Adriatic Sea, Kvarner Bay, Croatia, Europe

Freedom Charter, Walter Sisulu Square, Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Column with the 7th article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 as inscription, lettering "Alle Menschen sind vor dem Gesetz gleich", German for "All are equal before the law", Way of Human Rights outdoor sculpture, Kartaeusergasse street, Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Pages of old weathered bible verse lying in junkyard.

In the police station of the German Schutztruppe from 1904 in what is now Namibia is the following slogan: seid einig seid treu, seid deutsch. Police station of the German Schutztruppe in Namibia from 1904, colony, historical, Kub, Namibia, Africa

A wooden crate more than a century old is shown Aug. 26 , 2022, at the Fort McCoy History Center in the historic Commemorative Area at Fort McCoy, Wis. The crate was donated to Fort McCoy by Alan McCoy of Sparta, Wis., who is the grandson of Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy for whom Fort McCoy is named after. The crate, which once carried lard buckets, traces back to the time of Camp Emery Upton and Camp Robinson in Wisconsin around 1910.

Lithuania, Vilnius, Names Of Victims On Wall Of Museum Of Genocide Victims (Formerly KGB Headquarters)

Spain (Archipielago de Cabrera) Parque nacional. Balearic Islands. Castillo del Puerto de Cabrera, siglo XIV, Es Port.

Tributes written on the ground, during the days following the 22 May 2017, suicide bombing, carried out at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, following a concert by American singer Ariana Grande.

Dresden Stasi memorial, interrogation rooms, archive, photo lab

DEU, Germany: The historical slides from the 84-85 r years, Bonn. Office of the Federal President on 12.7.1984

SPAIN - Baix Empordá (district) - Catalonia - GERONA. Forallac (municipi); Els Clots de Sant Julià; capella troglodita coneguda amb el nom de «Sitial» ; detall de creu a la part interior

Written information in Arabic in wooden caskets, in a warehouse where hundreds of human skeletal remains were found. (Substandard image). Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Az Zubayr Country: Iraq (IRQ)

Marked flood levels on a wall as a reminder and warning, Hannoversch Muenden, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Mail boxes

Crypt house with recovered grave slabs at the cemetery in Bad Muskau

Menu board and restaurant in Paris, France

Selection of tram tickets from the Birmingham tram network. Birmingham Corporation Tramways operated a network of tramways in Birmingham from 1904 until 1953. It was the largest narrow-gauge tramway network in the UK and the largest tramway network in the UK after London; Glasgow and Manchester.

Berlin, Germany - 27 August 2020: view of the Berlin Wall Memorial with the plaque of the fallen

Each of the eight haunch access doors located in the mobile launcher platform contains an inspirational quote related to space travel. The quotes are from John F. Kennedy, H.G. Wells and Werner Von Braun, among others. The heavy metal doors will be bolted in place to protect electrical and support systems during liftoff of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft.

Banat, Timisoara, Timisoara, old town centre, names on a fountain, metal plate with names, Romania, Europe

Germany Germany, Berlin, former border post on the inner German border, is now near Checkpoint Charlie No Pr

Pinkas synagogue. Memorial to the 80,000 Jewish Victims of the Holocaust from Bohemia and Moravia. Wall of names.

Stolpersteine, commemoration of the victims of the dictatorship under National Socialism, Salzburger Strasse, Berlin, Germany, Europe

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