Ancestral voices: Decoding ancient languages [The invention of writing -- Deciphering lost languages -- The mysterious east -- It is scientifically insoluble -- The Rosetta Stone -- I've got it! I've got it! -- The wedge signs -- To win a wager -- Rawlinson and the Behistun rock -- Babylon revisited -- A lost civilization and a forgotten flood -- A harvest of decipherments -- New-world writing -- The Maya riddle -- Computers, toothaches, and emblems -- Pushing back Europe's horizon -- Cracking linear b -- The next decipherments ]
Language: English
Published by Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1992, 1975, 1992
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Barnes and Noble edition, 1st printing ; 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ISBN 9780880298513, 0880298510 OCLC 27944066 ; LCCN 75014426 LC P901 .N6 Dewey 417.7 ; black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The invention of writing -- Deciphering lost languages -- The mysterious east -- It is scientifically insoluble -- The Rosetta Stone -- I've got it! I've got it! -- The wedge signs -- To win a wager -- Rawlinson and the Behistun rock -- Babylon revisited -- A lost civilization and a forgotten flood -- A harvest of decipherments -- New-world writing -- The Maya riddle -- Computers, toothaches, and emblems -- Pushing back Europe's horizon -- Cracking linear b -- The next decipherments ; FINE/FINE.
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- Title
- Ancestral voices: Decoding ancient languages [The invention of writing -- Deciphering lost languages -- The mysterious east -- It is scientifically insoluble -- The Rosetta Stone -- I've got it! I've got it! -- The wedge signs -- To win a wager -- Rawlinson and the Behistun rock -- Babylon revisited -- A lost civilization and a forgotten flood -- A harvest of decipherments -- New-world writing -- The Maya riddle -- Computers, toothaches, and emblems -- Pushing back Europe's horizon -- Cracking linear b -- The next decipherments ]
- Author
- Norman, James, 1912-1983
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1992, 1975
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0880298510
- ISBN 13
- 9780880298513
- Edition
- 2nd Edition.
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