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 ]

Norman, James, 1912-1983

ISBN 10: 0880298510 / ISBN 13: 9780880298513

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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Bibliographic Details

• 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 ...
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1992, 1975
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880298510
• ISBN 13: 9780880298513
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Recounts the work of leading nineteenthand twentieth-century literary archaeologists in searching out, studying, and deciphering ancient writings and thereby retrieving the histories and literatures of ancient cultures