Forgotten Scripts. How they were deciphered and their impact on contemporary culture

1. Codes and Ciphers; 2. The Decipherment of Egyptian; 3. Grotefend’s Decipherment of Old Persian; 4. Reclaiming the Sumero-Akkadian Legacy; 5. Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Hittite; 6. Ugaritic: Decipherment and Impact; 7. The Aegean Syllabary; $6.95.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gordon, Cyrus H.
Format: Print Book
In:Year: 1968
Published: New York 1968
KeiBi Identifier:30:78
All Reviews:AJ 49 (1969) 407-408 (W. Brice)
Antiquity 43/170 (1969) 150-151 (J. Chadwick)
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