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“arthur john booth”

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  • The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

    by Arthur John Booth ...
    In "The Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions," Arthur John Booth meticulously explores the groundbreaking efforts that led to the understanding of ancient cuneiform writing. This scholarly work unveils the historical significance of the trilingual inscriptions, particularly the inscriptions from Behistun, which provided pivotal clues to unlocking the languages of ... Read more

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  • The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

    by Arthur John Booth ...
    The decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia is worthy of being included among the great achievements of the nineteenth century. Only a hundred years ago it was still possible to maintain that there was no such thing as cuneiform writing, and that the mysterious figures that went by that name were merely a grotesque form of ornamentation. We propose to recount the method pursued ... Read more

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  • Extinct Languages

    by Johannes Friedrich ...
    A noted linguist examines extinct languages, from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the mysteries of as-yet undeciphered writings, in this scholarly work.While certain ancient languages were passed down continuously through the ages, many others were ignored for centuries. When scholars began to decipher these extinct languages in the early nineteenth century, they uncovered previously inaccessible riches ... Read more

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  • The Scythian Empire

    Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China

    by Christopher I. Beckwith ...
    A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient worldIn the late 8th and early 7th centuries BCE, Scythian warriors conquered and unified most of the vast Eurasian continent, creating an innovative empire that would give birth to the age of philosophy and the Classical age across the ancient world—in the West, the Near East, India, and China. Mobile horse ... Read more

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  • The Decipherment of Linear B

    by John Chadwick ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it ... Read more

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  • The Royal Tombs of Ancient Egypt

    by Aidan Dodson ...
    The renowned Egyptologist presents a fascinating and comprehensive history of Ancient Egyptian pyramids, mausolea and other funerary monuments.The royal tombs of ancient Egypt include some of the most stupendous monuments of all time, containing some of the greatest treasures to survive from the ancient world. This book is a history of the burial places of the rulers of Egypt from the very dawn of ... Read more

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  • Travelling Heroes

    by Robin Lane Fox ...
    The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid ... Read more

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  • Leibnitz

    Life and philosophy

    by Alexander C. Fraser, Harald Høffding, Frederic H. Hedge ...
    Wilhelm Leibnitz, like Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza, is convinced of the importance of the mechanical explanation of nature. His three predecessors regarded the mechanical principles as self-evident and as given once for all, and assumed the task of interpreting the various elements of reality in harmony with the principle of mechanical causality. Leibnitz however subjects the principle of ... Read more

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  • The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires

    Adaptation and Expansion

    Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Michael Alram, Touraj Daryaee, Elizabeth Pendleton ...
    Series Book 5 - British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monograph Series
    Although much of the primary information about the Parthian period comes from coins, there has been much new research undertaken over the past few decades into wider aspects of both the Parthian and Sassanian Empires including the Arsacid Parthians, and their material culture. Despite a change of ruling dynasty, the two empires were closely connected and cannot be regarded as totally separate ... Read more

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  • The Riddle of the Rosetta

    How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

    by Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz ...
    A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century EuropeIn 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • The Persian Empire

    A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period

    by A. Kuhrt ...
    Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated translations, together with introductions to the problems of using it in order to gain an understanding of the history and working os this remarkable political entity.The Achaemenid empire developed in the region of ... Read more

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  • A History of Ethiopia: Volume II (Routledge Revivals)

    Nubia and Abyssinia

    by E. A. Wallis Budge ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This is the second volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge’s narrative account of Ethiopian history, and continues the chronicle of the Kings of Abyssinia where the first volume ended: the death of Lebna Dengel in 1540.The list of kings ends with the Regent Rās Tafari, who still reigned at the time of first publication in 1928. Thereafter, the author devotes considerable attention to an overview of the ... Read more

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