Subject search:Writing AND History

Writing systems: a linguistic introduction

by Geoffrey Sampson
Paper Book, 1985
Tags
Linguistics, Anthropology, Languages
Collection
Don

Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Deciperment

by Emily Fox Gordon
Hardcover, 1982
Tags
Alphabets and Decipherment, Ancient Languages, Egyptian Language, Mesopotamian Languages, Akkadian, Sumero-Akkadian, Old Persian, Hittite, Ugaritic, Eteocretan, Minoan — 3 more, Eblaite, Archaeology, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Gifts

The greatest invention: a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts

by Silvia Ferrara
Paper Book, 2022
Tags
Alphabets and Decipherment, Hieroglyphics, Cuneiform, China, Easter Island
Collection
Don

Visible language : inventions of writing in the ancient Middle East and beyond

by Christopher Woods
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Linguistics, Anthropology, Ancient Languages, Scripts, Anthologies, Illustrated, Cuneiform, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, Hieroglyphics — 4 more, Hieratic, Demotic, China, Mesoamerica
Collection
Whealton

Image of the New World : the American continent portrayed in native texts

by Gordon Brotherston
Paper Book, 1979
Tags
North America, Calendars, Hieroglyphs, Maize, Nahua, Popol Vuh, Quetzalcoatl, Cosmogony, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods

by Jean Bottéro
Paperback, 1995
Tags
Mesopotamia, Assyriology, Writing, Mesopotamian Religion, Divination, Oracles, Dreams, Omens, Haruscipy, Sacrifice, Substitute Kings — 10 more, Tanistry, Code of Hammurabi, Sexual Life, Prostitution, Religion, Pantheon, Cosmogony, Enki/ Ea, Death, Afterlife
Collection
Gifts

Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts

by Andrew Robinson
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
Alphabets and Decipherment, Magical Languages, Magic, Hieroglyphs, Linear B, Mayan, Meroitic, Etruscans, Graeco-Roman World, Linear A, Proto-Elamite — 5 more, Rongorongo, Zapotec, Isthmian Script, Indus, Phaistos Disc
Collection
Don

Breaking the Maya Code

by Michael D. Coe
Hardcover, 1992
Tags
Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Glyphs, Decipherment, ZZZ
Collection
Greg

The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind, Second and Revised Edition

by David Diringer
Hardcover, 1948
Tags
Alphabets and Decipherment, Magical Languages, Magic, Writing Systems, Writing, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Breaking the Maya code

by Michael D. Coe
Paper Book, 1999
Tags
Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Glyphs, Decipherment, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

Decoding the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs (The Great Courses)

by Bob Brier
DVD, 2016
Tags
How to Read Egyptian, Egyptian Language, Egypt, Lessons, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Don

Breaking the Maya code

by Michael D. Coe
Paper Book, 2012
Tags
Mayan Language, Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Central America, South America, Decipherment, Language, Glyphs
Collection
Don

The birth of writing

by Robert Claiborne
Paper Book, 1974
Tags
Series, Emergence of Man, Writing, Language, Cuneiform, Hieroglyphs
Collection
Don

Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages (Magic in History)

by Don C. Skemer
Paperback, 2006
Tags
History of Magic, Magic in History Series, Ritual Magic, Alchemy, Magic, Amulets, Middle Ages, Textual Amulets
Collection
Don

The Alphabet Effect: The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on the Development of Western Civilization

by Robert K. Logan
Paperback, 1987
Tags
Alphabets and Decipherment, Magical Languages, Magic, Development of Writing, Writing Systems, Evolution of Writing
Collection
Don

The story of archaeological decipherment: From Egyptian hieroglyphs to Linear B (The World of archaeology)

by Maurice Pope
Paperback, 1975
Tags
Alphabets and Decipherment, Magical Languages, Magic, Egyptian, Hieroglyphs, Linear B, Archaeology, Cuneiform, Rosetta Stone, Ugaritic Alphabet, Cypriot Syllabary
Collection
Don
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