Forgotten Scripts: Their Ongoing Discovery and Deciperment

by Emily Fox Gordon

TABLE OF 1.) Codes and ciphers -- 2.) The decipherment of Egyptian -- 3.) Grotefend's decipherment of Old Persian -- 4.) Reclaiming the Sumero-Akkadian legacy -- 5.) Cuneiform and hieroglyphic Hittite -- 6.) Ugaritic : decipherment and impact -- 7.) The Aegean syllabary -- 8.) The Elba archives -- 9.) A sampling of unlocked treasures.

226 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1982

About the author

Emily Fox Gordon has published two memoirs, a collection of personal essays, and a novel. She has received two Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a 2019 Sidney Award. She is a member of the MFA faculty at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina and lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, philosopher George Sher.

Reviews

[Meg]

Why would you want a revised edition? You'd lose the romance of holding one of those charming little blue penguin books!