Deciphering vanished scripts

Andrew Robinson
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Andrew Robinson: Andrew Robinson is a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB, UK, and author of The Story of Writing and Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts. ar471@cam.ac.uk

Nature, 2008, vol. 455, issue 7216, 1033-1034

Abstract: The origins of communication are explored in a landmark compilation that charts the disappearance of writing systems from ancient cuneiform to Turkish Arabic script, explains Andrew Robinson.

Date: 2008
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