Ancestral Voices: Decoding Ancient Languages

Ancestral Voices: Decoding Ancient Languages
ISBN-10
0880298510
ISBN-13
9780880298513
Series
Ancestral Voices
Category
Extinct languages
Pages
242
Language
English
Published
1992
Author
James Norman

Description

Recounts the work of leading nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary archaeologists in searching out, studying, and deciphering ancient writings and thereby retrieving the histories and literatures of ancient cultures.

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