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Written Signs Have Been Around For More Than 5,000 Years, But As Civilizations Died They Often Took With Them The Key To Understanding Those Signs. Then, Within The Last Two Centuries, Scientists Cracked The Code Of Cuneiform, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, And Linear B, Opening Up Great Vistas On The Past And Enabling Us To Decipher For The First Time Evidence From Ancient Documents And Monuments. Written By Six Specialists, This Volume Collects These And Other Stories In The History Of Writing, Tracing Its Progression From Pictograms To The Development Of The Alphabet, And Exploring Such Factors As The Legacy Of Greek Inscriptions And The Role Of The Etruscan Language As A Bridge From Ancient Greece To Rome. --publisher Description. Cuneiform / C.b.f. Walker -- Egyptian Hieroglyphs / W.v. Davies -- Linear B And Related Scripts / John Chadwick -- The Early Alphabet / John F. Healey -- Greek Inscriptions / B.f. Cook -- Etruscan / Larissa Bonfante. Introduced By J. T. Hooker. Includes Bibliography And Index.

Author

J. T Hooker; C. B. F Walker; W. V Davies; John Chadwick; John F Healey; B. F Cook; Larissa Bonfante

Publisher

British Museum Publications; British Museum Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780714180724

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, History