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McGraw-Hill
Language
English
Pages
352

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Extinct languages, Writing, History

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Table of Contents

Voices of the Pharaohs: Egyptian hieroglyphs (Egypt)
The Labyrinth of Minos: linear B (Greece)
Bishop de Landa's inquisition: Mayan glyphs (Central America)
Voices of the Black Pharaohs: the Meroitic script (Sudan)
Greek but not Greek: the Etruscan alphabet (Italy)
A Mediterranean mystery: linear A (the Aegean)
Secrets of the ancient ledgers: the proto-elamite script (Iran)
Birdmen of Rapanui: Rongorongo (Easter Island)
The 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)
The urge to decipher.

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"A Peter N. Nevraumont book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-340) and index.

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352 p. :
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OL23246691M
ISBN 10
0071357432
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2001051412
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