TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norman,James
TI  - Ancestral voices: decoding ancient languages 
SN  - 0590173332
PY  - 1975///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Four Winds Press
KW  - Extinct languages
KW  - Inscriptions
KW  - History
KW  - Writing
N1  - 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
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