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Man has been called the talking animal -- but he is also a writing one. From all over the world explorers, anthropologists and archaeologists have collected the an inscription perhaps, high up on a rock face in Persia, cylinder-seals unearthed at Mohenjo-Daro, or the mysterious rongo-rongo tablets found on Easter Island; not to mention the countless written remains, Semitic, Greek and Roman, of our own European heritage. In Sign, Symbol and Script this material has been shaped into a fluent account of all the known ways in which man has tried to write. After dealing with the borderline cases of prehistory -- were the hieroglyphs communications or merely pictures, perhaps of a magical kind? -- the author gives some fascinating examples of primitive 'writing', and analyses the stages on the way to an alphabet. Then, one after the other, he describes the great script-groups of the world, their origins as far as they are known, the phases and styles through which they passed, and the forces which led ultimately to their spread or decline. Besides chapters on the Egyptian hieroglyphs, for instance, and the Chinese script -- the oldest still in use -- an especially detailed account is gi

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Author

Hans Detlef JENSEN

Publisher

G. Allen and Unwin

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780044000211

Category

history

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.7 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14