Cuneiform (Ancient languages) - Softcover

Finkel, Irving; Taylor, Jonathan

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9780714111889: Cuneiform (Ancient languages)

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'Filled with detailed colour images of clay tablets from the British Museum's archives, this text is a wonderful overview of the invention that turned prehistory into history' --Current World Archaeology

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