Extinct Languages By: Johannes Friedrich

Author: Johannes Friedrich

This is the story of the art of deciphering forgotten languages and scripts. In this engaging and readable book author Frederich, one of the foremost experts in both linguistics and archaeology, first describes the languages and scripts of the Ancient Orient, then proceeds on an intellectual journey that will take the reader through Egyptian Hieroglyphics, the cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia, the interpretation of Sumerian records, the scripts of the hittites and finally the languages of Ancient Italy.