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Voices in Stone: The decipherment of ancient scripts and writings
Voices in Stone The decipherment of ancient scripts and writings Author:Ernst Doblhofer Intended for the layman, but written with expert care and accuracy based on the advice of specialists from major universities throughout the world, "Voices in Stone" presents a comprehensive sweep of ancient languages." — It is this absorbing and exciting story of incomparable detection that Ernst Doblhofer, himself an expert, has to tell - from ... more »cuneiform to runic, from the sphynx to the land of Hatti, from the antiquity of Persia and the mystery of Easter Island and the disc of Phaistos to Creto-Myceanaean Linear B. Scrolls engulfed by the lava of Herculaneum, clay tablets buried beneath the sands of Mesopotamia, stelae on the banks of the Nile - so many signs and riddles of civilization wandering in the maze of history, where, in the words of Valery, "the ghosts of huge ships sail laden with riches and knowledge."