The story of decipherment : from Egyptian hieroglyphs to Maya script
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The story of decipherment : from Egyptian hieroglyphs to Maya script
Thames and Hudson, 1999
Rev. ed
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 218-224
Includes index
"This revised edition first published in 1999 in paperback by Thames and Hudson Inc." -- T.p. verso
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The desire to solve mysteries is as old as humanity and the spell of an unknown writing has always been particularly potent. This is a discussion of the contributions to the science of decipherment made by theorists such as Leibnitz and by brilliant practitioners of it from Champollion to Ventris. Maurice Pope examines the intellectual developments that lead to their outstanding achievements, and describes the process of decipherment, providing quotations from their original publications and many examples of their drawings, tables and diagrams. Among the scripts the author analyses are the Palmyra script, Sassanid Persian, Egyptian hieroglyphic, Persian cuniform, Akkadian cuneiform, the Cypriot syllabary, Hittitte hieroglyphic, the Ugaritic alphabet and Mycenaean Linear B.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The Egyptian hieroglyphs: through Renaissance eyes
- the 18th century
- from the Rosetta Stone to Champollion's Decipherment. Part 2 Cuneiform: Persian cuneiform
- other cuneiform scripts. Part 3 Agean and Anatolian writing: the Cypriot syllabary
- Hittitte hieroglyphic
- Evans and the Aegean scripts
- Kober, Ventris and Linear B. Conclusion - the history of writing.
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