Lost Languages The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts

Name: Lost Languages The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
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ISBN: 9780071357432

ISBN-10: 0071357432

ISBN-13: 9780071357432

Edition: 2002

Authors: Andrew Robinson

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Illustrated throughout, Lost Languages is a fascinating look at the world's remaining undeciphered scripts and the people who are stuggling to crack them, from the author of The Story of Writing.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 4/25/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Writing Systems, Coded Civilizations and Undeciphered Scripts



Three Great Decipherments



Voices of the Pharaohs: Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Egypt)



The Labyrinth of Minos: Linear B (Greece)



Bishop de Landa's Inquisition: Mayan Glyphs (Central America)



Undeciphered Scripts



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)


Conclusion



The Urge to Decipher


Notes and References


Further Reading


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index