The Story of Writing - Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms
Author(s): Andrew Robinson
Aims to demystify writing for the general reader. This book explains the interconnection between sound, symbol and script for each of the major writing systems in turn, and follows the discovery of writing forms from cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of Japan today.
Product Information
How writing works: reading the Rosetta Stone; sound, symbol and script; proto-writing. Extinct writing: cuneiform; Egyptian hieroglyphs; linear B; Mayan glyphs; undeciphered scripts. Living writing: the first alphabet; new alphabets from old; Chinese writing; Japanese writing; from hieroglyphs to alphabets - and back?
General Fields
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- : Thames & Hudson
- : Thames & Hudson
- : 0.78
- : 01 January 2000
- : 254mm X 192mm X 19mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Andrew Robinson
- : Paperback
- : 411.09
- : very good
- : 224
- : 350 illustrations, 50 in colour
