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Cuneiform / by Finkel, Irving L.,author.(CARDINAL)645467; Taylor, J.(Jonathan),author.(CARDINAL)787608;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-105) and index.
Subjects: Cuneiform writing.; Cuneiform inscriptions.; Cuneiform tablets.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Reading the past; the story of deciphering ancient languages / by Cottrell, Leonard.(CARDINAL)152431;
Bibliography: pages 171-173.
Subjects: Alphabet.; Hieroglyphics.; Writing; Cuneiform writing.;
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Reading the past : ancient writing from cuneiform to the alphabet / by Hooker, J. T.(CARDINAL)513043;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Cuneiform / C.B.F. Walker -- Egyptian hieroglyphs / W.V. Davies -- Linear B and related scripts / John Chadwick -- The early alphabet / John F. Healey -- Greek inscriptions / B.F. Cook -- Etruscan / Larissa Bonfante.
Subjects: Writing;
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Visible language : inventions of writing in the ancient Middle East and beyond / by Woods, Christopher,1968-editor.(DLC)n 2008010585; Emberling, Geoff,editor.(DLC)no2008116164; Teeter, Emilyauthoreditor.(DLC)n 88179354; University of Chicago.Oriental Institute(DLC)n 79027111 ;
Includes bibliographical references.This unique exhibit is the result of collaborative efforts of more than twenty authors and loans from five museums. It focuses on the independent invention of writing in at least four different places in the Old world and Mesoamerica with the earliest texts of Uruk, Mesopotamia (5,300 BC) shown in the United States for the first time. Visitors to the exhibit and readers of this catalog can see and compare the parallel pathways by which writing came into being and was used by the earliest kingdoms of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the Maya world.
Subjects: Writing; Egyptian language; Cuneiform writing; Picture-writing; Writing;
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The Mesopotamian riddle [sound recording] : an archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing / by Hammer, Joshua,1957-author.(CARDINAL)657207; Davies, Matthew Lloyd,narrator.;
Read by Matthew Lloyd Davies."It was one of history's great vanishing acts. As early as 3500 BCE, scribes in the mud-walled city-state of Sumer used a reed stylus to press tiny wedge-shaped symbols into clay. For three thousand years, the script chronicled the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of the grand kingdoms of Mesopotamia - Assyria, Babylon, the mighty Achaemenid Empire - along with precious minutia about everyday life so long ago. But as the palaces of these once great kingdoms sank beneath the desert sands, the meaning of these characters was lost. London, 1857. Colossal sculptures of winged bulls and alabaster bas-reliefs depicting cities under siege and vassals bearing tributes to Biblical kings lined the halls of the British Museum. In the Victorian era's obsession with the triumph of human progress, the mysterious kingdoms of ancient Mesopotamia - the very cradle of civilization - had captured the public imagination. Yet Europe's best philologists struggled to decipher the strange characters. Cuneiform seemed to have thousands of symbols - with some scholars claiming each could be pronounced in up to eight, nine, even ten different ways. Others insisted they'd cracked the code and deciphered inscriptions that corresponded precisely to the Old Testament - proving the veracity of the Word of God. Was it all a hoax? A delusion? A rollicking adventure through the golden age of archaeology, The Writing on the Wall tracks the decades-long race to decipher the oldest script in the world. It's the story of a swashbuckling young archeologist, a suave British military officer, and a curmudgeonly Irish rector, all vying for glory - from the ruins of Persepolis to the opulence of Ottoman-era Baghdad - in a quest to unearth the relics of lost civilizations and unlock the secrets of humanity's past"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Cuneiform writing.; Cuneiform inscriptions.; Assyriology;
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The Mesopotamian riddle : an archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing / by Hammer, Joshua,1957-author.(CARDINAL)657207;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-358) and index."It was one of history's great vanishing acts. As early as 3500 BCE, scribes in the mud-walled city-state of Sumer used a reed stylus to press tiny wedge-shaped symbols into clay. For three thousand years, the script chronicled the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of the grand kingdoms of Mesopotamia - Assyria, Babylon, the mighty Achaemenid Empire - along with precious minutia about everyday life so long ago. But as the palaces of these once great kingdoms sank beneath the desert sands, the meaning of these characters was lost. London, 1857. Colossal sculptures of winged bulls and alabaster bas-reliefs depicting cities under siege and vassals bearing tributes to Biblical kings lined the halls of the British Museum. In the Victorian era's obsession with the triumph of human progress, the mysterious kingdoms of ancient Mesopotamia - the very cradle of civilization - had captured the public imagination. Yet Europe's best philologists struggled to decipher the strange characters. Cuneiform seemed to have thousands of symbols - with some scholars claiming each could be pronounced in up to eight, nine, even ten different ways. Others insisted they'd cracked the code and deciphered inscriptions that corresponded precisely to the Old Testament - proving the veracity of the Word of God. Was it all a hoax? A delusion? A rollicking adventure through the golden age of archaeology, The Writing on the Wall tracks the decades-long race to decipher the oldest script in the world. It's the story of a swashbuckling young archeologist, a suave British military officer, and a curmudgeonly Irish rector, all vying for glory - from the ruins of Persepolis to the opulence of Ottoman-era Baghdad - in a quest to unearth the relics of lost civilizations and unlock the secrets of humanity's past"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Biographies.; Cuneiform writing.; Cuneiform inscriptions.; Assyriology;
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The Mesopotamian Riddle [sound recording] : An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing. by Hammer, Joshueauthor.; Matthew Lloyd Davies narrator.;
Davies, Matthew Lloyd A rollicking adventure starring three free-spirited Victorians on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. It was one of history's great vanishing acts. Around 3,400 BCE--as humans were gathering in complex urban settlements--a scribe in the mud-walled city-state of Uruk picked up a reed stylus to press tiny symbols into clay. For three millennia, wedge shape cuneiform script would record the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of the great Mesopotamian kingdoms of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylon and of Persia's mighty Achaemenid Empire, along with precious minutiae about everyday life in the cradle of civilization. And then...the meaning of the characters was lost. London, 1857. In an era obsessed with human progress, mysterious palaces emerging from the desert sands had captured the Victorian public's imagination. Yet Europe's best swashbuckling archaeologist, a suave British military officer turned diplomat, and a cloistered Irish rector, all vying for glory in a race to decipher this script that would enable them to peek farther back into human history than ever before. From the ruins of Persepolis to lawless outposts of the crumbling Ottoman Empire, The Mesopotamian Riddle whisks you on a wild adventure through the golden age of archaeology in an epic quest to understand our past.
Subjects: Audiobooks ; Informational works ; Cuneiform writing ; Cuneiform inscriptions ; Assyriology--history ; Adventurers & explorers ;
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Egyptian literature; comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings /
Subjects: Egyptian literature; English literature.;
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The library of ancient wisdom : Mesopotamia and the making of the modern world / by Wisnom, Laura Selena,1986-author;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-363) and index."The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria's last great king, held an astonishing collection at the forefront of knowledge in its day, from ancient traditions in religion and literature to the latest developments in magic and medicine. When the Assyrian empire fell, the library burned to the ground, and its contents, clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing, lay buried for thousands of years until a team of Victorian archaeologists discovered the remnants in modern-day Iraq. The clay had baked and hardened; the very fire that consumed the library had helped its texts to survive for millennia. In THE LIBRARY OF ANCIENT WISDOM, scholar Selena Wisnom, one of only a few hundred experts able to read cuneiform script today, guides us inside this important collection and, through its contents, brings ancient Mesopotamia and its people to life."--Jacket flap
Subjects: Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, active 668 B.C.-627 B.C.; Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, active 668 B.C.-627 B.C.; Libraries; Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.; Cuneiform writing.;
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Ancient Mesopotamia : the sumerians, babylonians, and assyrians / by Schomp, Virginia.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Cradle of civilization -- The warrior-kings -- Nobles, government officials, and priests -- Merchants and traders -- Artisans and artists -- Peasant farmers -- Soldiers and slaves -- Doctors and scientists -- Scribes and poets -- The legacy of ancient Mesopotamia.Examines the culture of Ancient Mesopotamia and the social structure of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians and provides details on Cuneiform writing, the Code of Hammurabi, Assyrian military strength, and archaeological discoveries.1070LAccelerated Reader AR
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