Palaeography, also spelt paleography, palaiós, "old" and graphein, "to write") is the study of ancient handwriting and the practice of deciphering and reading historical manuscripts. Palaeography can be an essential skill for historians and philologists, as it tackles two main difficulties. First, since the style of a single alphabet in each given language has evolved constantly, it's necessary to know how to decipher its individual characters as they existed in various eras. Second, scrib… (More on Paleography)