Ancestral voices : decoding ancient languages /
Norman, James
Ancestral voices : decoding ancient languages / James Norman. - New York : Four Winds Press, ©1975. - 242 p. : ill, map, 24 cm. - 492 (NLA) .
Cont. : The invention of writing --
Deciphering lost languages --
The mysterious east --
It is scientifically insoluble --
The Rosetta Stone --
I’ve got it! I’ve got it! --
The wedge signs --
To win a wager --
Rawlinson and the Behistun rock --
Babylon revisited --
A lost civilization and a forgotten flood --
A harvest of decipherments --
New-world writing --
The Maya riddle --
Computers, toothaches, and emblems --
Pushing back Europe’s horizon --
Cracking linear b --
The next decipherments.
0590173332
Extinct languages
Inscriptions--History
Writing--History
492 (NLA)
Ancestral voices : decoding ancient languages / James Norman. - New York : Four Winds Press, ©1975. - 242 p. : ill, map, 24 cm. - 492 (NLA) .
Cont. : The invention of writing --
Deciphering lost languages --
The mysterious east --
It is scientifically insoluble --
The Rosetta Stone --
I’ve got it! I’ve got it! --
The wedge signs --
To win a wager --
Rawlinson and the Behistun rock --
Babylon revisited --
A lost civilization and a forgotten flood --
A harvest of decipherments --
New-world writing --
The Maya riddle --
Computers, toothaches, and emblems --
Pushing back Europe’s horizon --
Cracking linear b --
The next decipherments.
0590173332
Extinct languages
Inscriptions--History
Writing--History
492 (NLA)