Paleography
Learn to read handwriting that's been illegible for centuries.
~$240Cost to start
SteepDifficulty
1–3 hrTime / session
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The path15 quests
ASetting up2 things to sort, in any order$17
- Find a free tutorial with transcribable images
- Get a reference book of letterforms
Then the quests
- Transcribe a full page of secretary hand
- Read a document where the tricky letters decide the meaning
- Read a document with a transcription beside it
Same shape of evening, different thing to hold at the end. Or follow a tag sideways.
Epigraphy$58
Read what was carved in stone thousands of years ago.
Genealogy$96
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Cryptography$17
Make and break codes, the math that keeps secrets secret.
Invent a language from scratch: its sounds, grammar, and script.