Forgotten Scripts by Cyrus H. Gordon
A concise, engaging survey of how scholars have found, analyzed, and in many cases deciphered the world’s ancient writing systems, explaining the methods, key discoveries, and memorable personalities behind breakthroughs while surveying major well-understood scripts (like hieroglyphic, cuneiform, and early alphabets) alongside more obscure and undeciphered signs; the book emphasizes the linguistic, archaeological, and comparative evidence used to read inscriptions and shows how decipherment reshapes our picture of the societies that produced those texts.
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