Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet by J.T. Hooker

Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet

J.T. Hooker

384 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Written signs have been around for more than 5,000 years, but as civilizations died they often took with them the key to understanding those signs. Then, within the last two centuries, scientists "cracked the code" of cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyp...

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