![]() ![]() That does not, of course, affect my rating, but it was frustrating to read a non-fiction book on language that was not adequately proof read! ( )Īndrew Robinson has written a book about lost languages and lost writing systems for the layman. I was disappointed in all of the typos in the book. This book is copyrighted in 2002 and I'm curious to know if anything new has been discovered or if any more progress on decipherment has been made in the last 12 years. I'll have to be careful - it sounds like there is a lot of information published about these scripts and not all of it can be trusted. I have read several books about the Maya hieroglyphs (all reputable) and I might explore more books that talk about some of these scripts in more detail. (I never did spend time figuring any of it out, I just kept reading for the answers.)īecause of all the different scripts mentioned in the book, there isn't a lot of detail about any of them. At times he tells you to try to figure a problem out by looking at a picture or chart. I enjoyed Andrew Robinson's commentaries and opinions. It was an easy read and the stories flowed well. Some of these I had not heard of, or had heard very little about, such as the Phaistos Disc and the Zapotec and Isthmian scripts. I enjoyed this brief overview of many of the world's undeciphered scripts. ![]()
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