Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered ScriptsTess Press, LLC, 2008 - 352 pages "Moves on to dissect the most wellknown and enigmatic undeciphered scripts from around the world. They include the Etruscan alphabet of Italy, the Indus Valley seal script, Rongorongo from remote Easter Island, the Zapotec script of Mexico (probably the first writing system in the Americas) and the unique Phaistos disc of Crete." - - Provided by publisher. |
Table des matières
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 8 |
THREE GREAT DECIPHERMENTS | 45 |
UNDECIPHERED SCRIPTS | 139 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts Andrew Robinson Affichage d'extraits - 2002 |
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts Andrew Robinson Aucun aperçu disponible - 2009 |
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts Andrew Robinson Aucun aperçu disponible - 2009 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
analysis ancient scripts appears archaeological decipherment archaeologist Barthel Bennett bilingual cartouches century Champollion characters Chinese classical compared Coptic corpus Cretan Crete culture Cumku cuneiform cursive Cypriot deci decipher decipherment Decipherment of Linear demotic Dravidian Dresden Codex Duhoux Easter Island Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphs Elamite English Etruscan Evans Evans's evidence example Fischer frequency glyphs Greek alphabet guage Indus script Indus sign Indus Valley civilization inscriptions Isthmian script Justeson and Kaufman Knorozov Knossos known Kober Kush Landa Linear A signs Linear B tablet Linear Elamite linguistic logograms Mahadevan Maya Mayan glyphs Mayan language Mayan script meaning ment Meroitic script Metoro Minoan Myres names Parpola Phaistos disc pherment phonetic values pictograms proto-cuneiform proto-Elamite Ptolemy Pylos Rapanui resemblance Roman rongorongo Rosetta stone ruler scholars seal Semitic sign groups sign list stela syllabary syllabic signs symbols tion undeciphered scripts Ventris Ventris's vowel words writing system written