Lost languages : the enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
McGraw-Hill,
[2002]
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| Series: | A Peter N. Nevraumont book
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: writing systems, coded civilizations and undeciphered scripts
- part I. Three great decipherments
- Voices of the Pharaohs: Egyptian hieroglyphs (Egypt)
- Labyrinth of Minos: linear B (Greece)
- Bishop de Landa's inquisition: Mayan glyphs (Central America)
- part II. Undeciphered scripts
- Voices of the Black Pharaohs: the Meroitic script (Sudan)
- Greek but not Greek: the Etruscan alphabet (Italy)
- Mediterranean mystery: linear A (the Aegean)
- Secrets of the ancient ledgers: the proto-elamite script (Iran)
- Birdmen of Rapanui: Rongorongo (Easter Island)
- New world begins to write: the Zapotec and Isthmian scripts (Mexico)
- At the sign of the unicorn: the Indus script (Pakistan/India)
- Sir Arthur's 'Chaunt of victory': the Phaistos disc (Crete)
- Conclusion
- Urge to decipher.