The Phaistos Disc
Author: Leon Pomerance
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13:
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The Phaistos Disk
Author: Thomas Balistier
Publisher: Verlag Dr Thomas Balister
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9783980616805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince it was discovered in 1908, the Phaistos Disk - one of the most important artifacts from Crete's minoan culture - has challenged scholars of diverse diciplines and captivated interests of amateurs. Its allure is primarily due to the fact that no one has been able to really solve its mystery. None of the numerous decipherments has found general acceptance or scientific approval. This book does not offer yet another attempt at deciphering the Disk. Rather, it is a short presentation of the various research efforts on the dating and origin, writing and language, as well as content and purpose of the Disk. This lively account of the most important aspects of a not-so-strictly-scholarly debate, which has gone on for decades, also includes a view of the putative solutions.
The Decipherment of Linear B
Author: John Chadwick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-09-13
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 110771723X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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 offers a valuable survey of late Minoan and Myceanean archaeology, uncovering fascinating details of the religion and economic history of an ancient civilisation.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts
Author: Philippa Steele
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2017-08-31
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1785706454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary. These scripts, of which some are deciphered and others are not, are known to be related to each other. However, the details of their relationships with each other have remained poorly understood and this will be the first volume dedicated solely to this issue. Nine papers aim to reach a better appreciation of relationships between writing systems than has been possible in previous research, through an interdisciplinary dialogue that takes account of both features of the writing systems and the contextual factors affecting the way in which writing was passed on. Each individual contribution furthers this aim by presenting the latest research on the Aegean scripts, demonstrating the great advances in our understanding of script relations that are possible through such detailed and innovative studies.
The Greatest Invention
Author: Silvia Ferrara
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0374601631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer’s eye. A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing’s future.
The Bronze Age Computer Disc
Author: Alan Butler
Publisher: Foulsham
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780572022174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the Phaistos disc, a carved stone disc from ancient Crete, contains mathematical information about the movement of the sun and stars.
Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus
Author: Philippa M. Steele
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1107169674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.
The Phaistos Disc
Author: Andis Kaulins
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient Scripts from Crete and Cyprus
Author: Jan Best
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-21
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9004673369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting from Invention to Decipherment
Author: Silvia Ferrara
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-08-27
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0198908768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Writing from Invention to Decipherment contains a wealth of global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, and the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline Island scripts, as well as the alphabet. The aim is to dig into the foundations of writing, showcasing the complexities and varieties of scripts, from their invention to the potential decipherment of poorly understood scripts. The volume offers state-of-the-art research on undeciphered scripts from the Aegean (as for example, Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A) or not completely deciphered (as for example Maya) scripts. From a methodological perspective, these contributions lay out how and why writing was invented, who used it, and to what ends. Here writing is presented as a multi-modal cultural phenomenon, that intersects and transcends neat discipline boundaries, within an inclusive approach bridging archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and cognitive studies.
