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Overview: The recovery, in modern times, of the lost languages of ancient civilizations has had a profound impact on our understanding of the past—for it has added two thousand years to the documented span of Western civilization. Cyrus Gordon, a great pioneer of decipherment and one of the world’s foremost scholars of the ancient Near East, has revised and enlarged his classic story of cryptanalysis and discovery to include the recent finds at Ebla that have forced scholars to rethink key issues in the cultural history of the ancient Near East.
Beginning with a lucid explanation of methods of cryptanalysis and how they are applied to the decipherment of ancient writings, Professor Gordon tells the story of the unraveling of each of the ancient languages: Egyptian, Old Persian, Sumero-Akkadian, Hittite, Ugaritic, Eteocretan, Minoan, and Eblaite. In the author’s skillful telling, the imposing hieroglyphic and cuneiform inscriptions are, shown not only to be thoroughly understandable but also to offer a glimpse into the ancient societies that gave birth to the Western world.
This superb book introduces the reader to the intellectual adventure of unraveling “forgotten scripts” and to the daring scholar-detectives who made the great discoveries.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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