Christopher Woods: Visible Language

Cover: 9781885923769 | Visible Language | Christopher Woods | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2010

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Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is one of humanity's greatest inventions. This book presents current perspectives on the origins and development of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, providing an overview of each writing system and its uses. Essays on writing in China and Mesoamerica complete coverage of the four "pristine" writing systems - inventions of writing in which there was no previous exposure to texts. The authors explore what writing is, and is not, and sections of the text are devoted to Anatolian hieroglyphs of Anatolia, and to the development of the alphabet in the Sinai Peninsula in the second millennium BC and its spread to Phoenicia where it spawned the Greek and Latin alphabets. This richly illustrated volume, issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute, provides a current perspective on, and appreciation of, an invention that changed the course of history.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781885923769
ISBN-10:	1885923767
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Orchester:	Teeter, Emily Emberling, Geoff
Redaktion:	Woods, Christopher
Hersteller:	Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	298 x 233 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Christopher Woods
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.10.2010
Gewicht:	0,961 kg