TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Andrew
TI  - Lost languages: the enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts 
SN  - 978-0-500-51453-5
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Writing
KW  - History
KW  - Extinct languages
N1  - With hardcover; Notes and references: pp. 324-334; bibliography: pp. 335-340; index: pp. 344-352; Cont.: Introduction: writing systems, coded civilizations and undeciphered scripts -- pt. I. Three great decipherments -- Voices of the Pharaohs: Egyptian hieroglyphs (Egypt) -- Labyrinth of Minos: linear B (Greece) -- Bishop de Landa's inquisition: Mayan glyphs (Central America) -- pt. II. Undeciphered scripts -- Voices of the Black Pharaohs: the Meroitic script (Sudan) -- Greek but not Greek: the Etruscan alphabet (Italy) -- Mediterranean mystery: linear A (the Aegean) -- Secrets of the ancient ledgers: the proto-elamite script (Iran) -- Birdmen of Rapanui: Rongorongo (Easter Island) -- 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 -- Urge to decipher
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