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Lost languages, the enigma of the world's great undeciphered scripts, Andrew Robinson

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Lost languages, the enigma of the world's great undeciphered scripts, Andrew Robinson

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-340) and index

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lost languages

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Andrew Robinson

Sub title

the enigma of the world's great undeciphered scripts

Table Of Contents

Voices of the Pharaohs : Egyptian hieroglyphs (Egypt) -- The Labyrinth of Minos : linear B (Greece) -- Bishop de Landa's inquisition : Mayan glyphs (Central America) -- Voices of the Black Pharaohs : the Meroitic script (Sudan) -- Greek but not Greek : the Etruscan alphabet (Italy) -- A Mediterranean mystery : linear A (the Aegean) -- Secrets of the ancient ledgers : the proto-Elamite script (Iran) -- Birdmen of Rapanui : Rongorongo (Easter Island) -- The 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) -- The urge to decipher

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