Colleen Berry Conway is the owner of Ogham Art alongside her husband Chris. She takes us through the history of the ancient Irish alphabet. This article is proudly presented alongside the Irish ...
Ireland is well known for its rich literary tradition stretching back to the early medieval period. Dating from roughly the seventh century (although mainly surviving in later manuscript copies), our ...
Traces of Ogham can still be found all across Ireland. The ancient script of Ogham, sometimes known now as the 'Celtic Tree Alphabet,' originally contained 20 letters grouped into four groups of five.
A man in England weeding his garden has made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: a stone inscribed with a 1,600-year-old message in a rare Irish alphabet. At first glance, the inscription looks like a ...
A geography teacher was tidying his overgrown garden at his home in Coventry, England, when he stumbled across a rock with mysterious incisions. Intrigued, he sent photographs to a local archaeologist ...
Exclusive: Sandstone rock featuring language markings created 1,600 years ago to go on display at museum A geography teacher was tidying his overgrown garden at his home in Coventry when he stumbled ...
Irish and Scottish academics are using digital and 3D technologies to protect ancient Celtic Ogham writings. The 1,500-year-old alphabet appears on monuments and objects dating back to the fourth ...
A mysterious sandstone rock engraved with ancient writing has been unearthed in Coventry. The rectangular rock, measuring just 110mm in length and weighing less than 130g, is thought to date from as ...