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+    Some, if not all, of the subdirectories in the archaic directory provide a
+series of METAFONT fonts and LaTeX packages for typesetting example texts
+with ancient alphabets and scripts. These are scripts that were in use
+from about 1600 BC until the first century or so AD.
+
+    Not all of the possible scripts are provided --- they number in
+the dozens --- but hopefully a representative sample of the more important
+are here. In this context `more important' means that they have been along
+the main line of development culminating in the Roman alphabet and Capital
+letters.
+
+    The series I have developed consists of the following scripts:
+
+Script                 Century           Subdirectory
+------                 -------           -------------
+Proto-Semitic           16 BC              protosem
+Phoenician              10 BC              phoenician
+Greek                    6 BC              greek6cbc
+Greek                    4 BC              greek4bc
+Etruscan                 8 BC              etruscan
+Futharc (Anglo-Saxon)    6 AD              runic
+
+    Other scripts in the series are representative of earlier writings.
+These include:
+
+Script                 Century           Subdirectory
+------                 -------           -------------
+Hieroglyphics           30 BC              hieroglf
+Linear B                15 BC              linearb
+Ugaritic Cuneiform      13 BC              ugarite
+Cypriot                  9 BC              cypriot
+Old Persian              5 BC              oldprsn
+
+    The small OandS font, in subdirectory oands, contains a few odd
+characters for use in translitering some of the above scripts.
+
+    I may, or may not, as the case will be, perhaps add to the collection.
+
+    The file asamples.ps is a Postscript file which displays samples of each of
+the script fonts that I have developed.
+
+    This distribution is released under the terms of the LaTeX Project
+Public License (LPPL).
+
+    Please note that anyone is welcome to make their own contributions to the
+archaic directory. It is not mine, although the CTAN maintainers were kind
+enough to create it at my request.
+
+Peter W.
+peter.r.wilson@boeing.com
+16 September 2000