Lost languages
Subtitle: the enigma of the world's great undeciphered scripts
By: Andrew Robinson.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Writing -- History; Extinct languages
Notes: "A Peter N. Nevraumont book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: Voices of the Pharaohs: Egyptian hieroglyphs (Egypt); title: The Labyrinth of Minos: linear B (Greece); title: Bishop de Landa's inquisition: Mayan glyphs (Central America); title: Voices of the Black Pharaohs: the Meroitic script (Sudan); title: Greek but not Greek: the Etruscan alphabet (Italy); title: A Mediterranean mystery: linear A (the Aegean); title: Secrets of the ancient ledgers: the proto-elamite script (Iran); title: Birdmen of Rapanui: Rongorongo (Easter Island); title: The new world begins to write: the Zapotec and Isthmian scripts (Mexico); title: At the sign of the unicorn: the Indus script (Pakistan/India); title: Sir Arthur's 'Chaunt of victory': the Phaistos disc (Crete); title: The urge to decipher.