I list here a few fonts of ancient language for PCs (TTF format) that have been useful to me in the recent past. I am not aware of any licensing problems, please contact me if you think that there are copyright issues. I provide no support or warranty for them: use them at your own risk.
Fonts
Aegean covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode Standard: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, and Archaic Greek Musical Notation. Aegean allocates in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15, the following scripts and symbols, as yet unsupported by Unicode: Cretan Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Linear A, the Arkalochori Axe, Ancient Greek and Old Italic variant alphabets.
The font encodes some 7100 Egyptian Hieroglyphs, all with a graphical representation. The main sources of glyphs are Hieroglyphica and the work of Alan Gardiner. Egyptian Hieroglyphs are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15, for the lack of a standard. The font also covers Basic Latin, Egyptian Transliteration characters, Coptic (new in version 3.12), Meroitic, some Punctuation and other Symbols and the Gardiner set of Egyptian Hieroglyphs supported by The Unicode Standard.
Akkadian covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode Standard: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Cuneiform, Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation.
Credits: Aegean, Aegyptus and Akkadian fonts by George Douros; Egyptian hieroglyphs font by Mark-Jan Nederhof; Linear B fonts by Curtis Clark; Phoenician font © Salim Khalaf.