The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya Script
Maurice Pope
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.
年:
1999
出版:
Revised
出版社:
Thames & Hudson
语言:
english
页:
213
ISBN 10:
050028105X
ISBN 13:
9780500281055
文件:
PDF, 29.33 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1999
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