Forgotten Scripts. How they were deciphered and their impact on contemporary culture
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; $6.95.
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| Format: | Print Book |
| In: | Year: 1968 |
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New York
1968
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| KeiBi Identifier: | 30:78 |
| All Reviews: | AJ 49 (1969) 407-408 (W. Brice) Antiquity 43/170 (1969) 150-151 (J. Chadwick) |
| Summary: | 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; $6.95. |
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