Ancestral voices
Subtitle: decoding ancient languages
By: by James Norman.
Publisher: Four Winds Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Extinct languages; Inscriptions -- History; Writing -- History
Description: Recounts the work of leading nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary archaeologists in searching out, studying, and deciphering ancient writings and thereby retrieving the histories and literatures of ancient cultures.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 225-231.
Includes index.