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Beginning with the stories of three great decipherments Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Linear B and Mayan glyphs Lost Languages moves on to dissect the most well-known and enigmatic undeciphered scripts from around the world. They include the Etruscan alphabet of Italy, the Indus Valley seal script, Rongorongo from remote Easter Island, the Zapotec script of Mexico (probably the first writing system in the Americas), and the unique Phaistos disc of Crete. Lost Languages reports from the front lines of scholarship where obsessions, genius, occasional delusion and sometimes bitter rivalry are de rigueur among those currently competing for the rare honour of cracking these ancient codes and giving voice to forgotten worlds.
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'An accessible primer...a potent mix of academic esoterica, code-cracking and controversy - the same giddy cocktail that made THE DA VINCI CODE such a success, but with much greater scholarship' - The Sunday Times (James McConnachie) March 2009
-- The Sunday Times March 8th 2009
`[A] must read'
-- The Sunday Times
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- PublisherThames and Hudson Ltd
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0500514534
- ISBN 13 9780500514535
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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