Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Deciperment

Gordon, Emily Fox

ISBN 10: 046502484X ISBN 13: 9780465024841

Published by Basic Books, US, 1983

Language: English

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Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Deciperment

Publisher

Basic Books, US

Publication Date

1983

Language

English

ISBN 10

046502484X

ISBN 13

9780465024841

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

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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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