Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
New York : Dorset Press, 1987.
Language
Physical description
xxi, 226 p.; 21.7 cm
ISBN
0880291702 / 9780880291705
Copy notes
Revised and enlarged editions.
Contents: Codes and ciphers -- The decipherment of Egyptian -- Grotefend's decipherment of Old Persian -- Reclaiming the Sumero-Akkadian legacy -- Cuneiform and hieroglyphic Hittite -- Ugaritic : decipherment and impact -- The Aegean syllabary -- The Ebla archives -- A sampling of unlocked treasures.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and indexes.
Yellow, red, and black pictorial dust jacket over beige quarter-cloth paper-covered boards. Dust jacket in Mylar.
Contents: Codes and ciphers -- The decipherment of Egyptian -- Grotefend's decipherment of Old Persian -- Reclaiming the Sumero-Akkadian legacy -- Cuneiform and hieroglyphic Hittite -- Ugaritic : decipherment and impact -- The Aegean syllabary -- The Ebla archives -- A sampling of unlocked treasures.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and indexes.
Yellow, red, and black pictorial dust jacket over beige quarter-cloth paper-covered boards. Dust jacket in Mylar.