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Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet (Reading the Past - Cuneiform to the Alphabet) - Softcover
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This volume contains six unabridged titles from the "Reading the Past" series and together they provide an introduction to the systems of writing used in the Ancient World. Illustrated throughout with examples of the scripts and the objects on which they survive, this book covers cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the early alphabet, linear B and related scripts, Greek inscriptions and Etruscan.
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Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet (Reading the Past - Cuneiform to the Alphabet)
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Reading the Past : Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet
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ISBN 10: 0714180777
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Reading the past : ancient writing from cuneiform to the alphabet
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