Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Deciperment
Language: English
Published by Basic Books, 1982
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- Title
- Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Deciperment
- Author
- Emily Fox Gordon
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 046502484X
- ISBN 13
- 9780465024841
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Codes and ciphers -- 2.) The decipherment of Egyptian -- 3.) Grotefend's decipherment of Old Persian -- 4.) Reclaiming the Sumero-Akkadian legacy -- 5.) Cuneiform and hieroglyphic Hittite -- 6.) Ugaritic : decipherment and impact -- 7.) The Aegean syllabary -- 8.) The Elba archives -- 9.) A sampling of unlocked treasures.
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