Visible language : inventions of writing in the ancient Middle East and beyond /
This unique exhibit is the result of collaborative efforts of more than twenty authors and loans from five museums. It focuses on the independent invention of writing in at least four different places in the Old world and Mesoamerica with the earliest texts of Uruk, Mesopotamia (5,300 BC) shown in t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. :
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,
2010.
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| Series: | Oriental Institute Museum publications ;
no. 32. |
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| Online Access: | http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/oimp32.pdf |
| Summary: | This unique exhibit is the result of collaborative efforts of more than twenty authors and loans from five museums. It focuses on the independent invention of writing in at least four different places in the Old world and Mesoamerica with the earliest texts of Uruk, Mesopotamia (5,300 BC) shown in the United States for the first time. Visitors to the exhibit and readers of this catalog can see and compare the parallel pathways by which writing came into being and was used by the earliest kingdoms of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the Maya world. |
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| Item Description: | Exhibition catalog held at the Oriental Institute of Chicago. |
| Physical Description: | 240 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781885923769 1885923767 |