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003			AM-YeNLA
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040			_aAM-YeNLA _beng
041	0		_aeng
080			_a492 (NLA)
100	1		_aNorman, James
245	1	0	_aAncestral voices : _bdecoding ancient languages / _cJames Norman.
260			_aNew York : _bFour Winds Press, _c©1975.
300			_a242 p. : _bill, map, _c24 cm.
505	0		_aCont. : 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.
650	1	4	_aExtinct languages
650	1	4	_aInscriptions _xHistory
650	1	4	_aWriting _xHistory
942			_2udc _cBK
998			_cNLAHASMIK_15
999			_c1810569 _d1810547