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Its like reading about turing bletchley park and the enigmamachinebut as the author notes the german codes weremaliciousdesigne... Read More
This is the first book ive ever bought or read that deals solely with the deciphering of scripts
Robinson begins with the story of three formerly undeciphered scripts that have now been more or less successfully deciphered e... Read More
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All of the joy of the first part of the bookthe thrill of discoveryis muted here with disappointment and frustration frequently... Read More
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- This product had a total of 64 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 26 2021.
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Many of the ancient writing systems are no longer in use
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Seeking for very old languages which might disclose what ancient man would abstract from natural kinds species
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Robinsons book includes examples of researchers who wasted years decades even whole careers chasing down red herrings
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Alongside with him is the british amateur archeologist and linguist michael ventris who in 1953 broke the code of the socalled minoan linear b tablets
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Contrary with what happened in the case of the rosetta stone where alongside with the text to be deciphered in demotic egyptian and in hieroglyphics there was not a base text in greek to be confuted with
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Andrew robinson the author of this excelent book is in this regard extremely well equiped to present difficult subjects in a very easy manner to the lay reader like myself who is only looking for the big picture and do not care about the multitude of details present in this type of work
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The chapter on the deciphering of the maya script by a russian scholar is also a very informative one in fact overflowing the reader with a lot of pertinent graphic information
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These authors books all deal with an expert in ancient codes breaking those codes to solve a mystery involving ancient historys impact on the present
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