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Lost languages : the enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts /

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Investigates famous examples of unsolved scripts and codes, in an account that recalls the stories of three forefront decipherments including the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Maya glyphs, and the Minoan Linear B clay tablets.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Andrew, 1957- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [2002]
Series:A Peter N. Nevraumont book
Subjects:
Writing > History.
Extinct languages.
Écriture > Histoire.
Langues mortes.
Extinct languages
Writing
Antike
Tote Sprache
Schrift
Graphemik
Schrift.
Ontcijfering.
Nonfiction.
History
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

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505 0 0 |t Introduction: writing systems, coded civilizations and undeciphered scripts --  |g part I. Three great decipherments --  |t Voices of the Pharaohs: Egyptian hieroglyphs (Egypt) --  |t Labyrinth of Minos: linear B (Greece) --  |t Bishop de Landa's inquisition: Mayan glyphs (Central America) --  |g part II. Undeciphered scripts --  |t Voices of the Black Pharaohs: the Meroitic script (Sudan) --  |t Greek but not Greek: the Etruscan alphabet (Italy) --  |t Mediterranean mystery: linear A (the Aegean) --  |t Secrets of the ancient ledgers: the proto-elamite script (Iran) --  |t Birdmen of Rapanui: Rongorongo (Easter Island) --  |t New world begins to write: the Zapotec and Isthmian scripts (Mexico) --  |t At the sign of the unicorn: the Indus script (Pakistan/India) --  |t Sir Arthur's 'Chaunt of victory': the Phaistos disc (Crete) --  |g Conclusion --  |t Urge to decipher. 
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