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2 reviews
John Montgomery

Hippocrene Books, 2002

lemuria
A good dictionary for studying Mayan inscriptions.I hope J.Montgomery will publish new and more comprehensive grammar books and dictionaries to enlighten us.

The Mystic Symbol: Mark of the Michigan Mound Builders

2 reviews
Hariette Mertz

Hayriver Press, 2004

The Mystic Symbol
This book is one of many that deal with the untold travelers of nations that visited this country. It goes against the grain of the history we are taught. The Rio Grande, Mississippi, Ohio rivers etc, were ancient freeways of the days of old .Archeology has proven this. These ancient travelers came to mine the many resources here. Dr.Barry Fell was a great teacher and linguist who has written ...

Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community

4 reviews
Margo DeMello

Duke University Press, 2000

OK
This book was ok! i was hoping for something more traditional in the designs the author gave her readers! i could have done i without the gang tattoes though!

The Rune Primer: A Down to Earth Guide to the Runes

16 reviews
Sweyn Plowright

Lulu.com, 2007

A Must Read Rune Book
Although there are many good books on runes, this is the only one that I've found that clearly separates modern fantasy from historical realities. I was surprised to learn that many of the meanings given to the runes of the Elder Futhark aren't the original meanings but were extrapolated out from younger runic systems as the LIKELY meanings for the runes of the Elder Futhark. This may not be ...

The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone

3 reviews
James Cross Giblin

HarperTrophy, 1993

An ideal introduction to how heiroglyphics were decoded.
"The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone" is accessible to our 9-year-old would-be Egyptologist with just a bit of vocabulary help from adults, yet is not the least insulting to her parents. This small book, with fewer than 100 pages, largeish type, and many clear illustrations, gives a readable and straightforward account of how the Rosetta stone allowed scholars to understand and even find the ...

Rudiments of Runelore

5 reviews
Stephen Pollington

Anglo-Saxon Books, 1995

A Factual Introduction
This is one of the few books that looks into the runes from an esoteric perspective without trying to invent a "tradition". It is a very basic introduction to the real historical facts about runelore, giving the reader the minimum starting point needed for further studies. Pollington is scholarly and faithful to the historical source material, while still catering to the esoteric focus of his ...

Understanding Roman Inscriptions

1 review
Lawrence Keppie

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991

How to make a dry subject interesting
Latin as well as Greek epigraphy is a very rich but arid subject, and for the non-specialist the classic manuals and introductions are quite a nightmare to read - lists and lists of abbreviations, tons of technical details, and mostly no pictures of the real inscriptions to provide context and settings. This is due mostly to the fact that the most important guides about epigraphy are very old - ...

Reading the Maya Glyphs, Second Edition

6 reviews
Michael D. Coe, Mark Van Stone

Thames & Hudson, 2005

Sweet Action!...
Holy Crap![.] This book is totally sweet![.] I may not be an expert in Mayan junk but I was keenly interested in this subject and this book delivered. In addition I had to write this paper about Classic Mayan Grammar in this class I was taking and this book saved my bacon. Thanks Michael D. Coe, I love you man...

The Decipherment of Linear B (Canto)

9 reviews
John Chadwick

Cambridge University Press, 1990

A detective story
When he excavated the Minoan city of Knossos in 1900, Arthur Evans found clay tablets containing an unknown language which he named Linear B (he also found variants he named 'hieroglyphic', Linear A, and Linear C). Evans himself began the decipherment process. He discovered that the tablets were palace records and deciphered their numbering system. Since there were about 90 different symbols, he ...

Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology

11 reviews
Edred Thorsson

Weiser Books, 1987

Great
This book is divided in two parts. First part, Historical Lore, presents a history of the runes in a more realistic, scientific view using examples form archaeology to support certain hypothesis of how the runes where invented (examples of runic writing with explanations are found throughout the book especially in the first part). The first 5 chapters of the book are chronologically organised and ...

By Roman Hands: Inscriptions and Graffiti for Students of Latin
Matthew Hartnett

Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co., 2008

Please note, this books is mostly in Latin. This book contains more than a hundred examples of Roman inscriptions; a birthday card scratched on a wooden tablet, an epitaph for a beloved child, a curse scribbled on a Pompeiian wall, the monumental record of an Emperor's achievements. These provide a vivid and compelling glimpse of Roman life and culture. This textbook is designed to supplement the primary textbook in elementary and ...

Chaos Theory

2 reviews
Graham Masterton

Severn House Publishers, 2007

Graham Masterton does it again!
Graham Masterton has the knack of taking existing, random information and forming it into brilliant fiction. In Chaos Theory, he shakes your pre-existing mindset that the world needs peace. I love Graham Masterton's work in that it's not only a fabulous and entertaining read, but he always makes you THINK!! He always presents some unique ways of looking at things you always took for granted ...

Roman Lives: Ancient Roman Life as Illustrated by Latin Inscriptions (Focus Classical Sources)
Brian K. Harvey

Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co., 2004

The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya Script

1 review
Maurice Pope

Thames & Hudson, 1999

A very nice overview of the decipherement of languages
How do people decipher old scripts? As a person with very badly legible handwriting I have always been interested in how scripts are deciphered. For the case of my handwriting I learned about how it is done from people who told me. Assume a letter has to be deciphered. First of all, the language I use is known to people who try to read the letter. I was told people usually start with words they ...

America B.C.: Ancient Settlers in the New World

25 reviews
Barry Fell, Barraclough Fell

Pocket, 1989

Open minds are healthy ones.
This fascinating book, summarising the author's findings after an extensive survey of Pre-Columbian sites and artifacts, is a gripping read, a masterpiece of archeological detective work. Page after page, Fell builds up a picture of America B.C., based on his decipherment of ancient stone inscriptions, more or less ignored since Columbus set foot in America. The controversial thing here, is that ...

The Christian Catacombs of Rome: History, Decoration, Inscriptions
Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai, Fabrizio Bisconti, ...

Schnell & Steiner, 2006

An Introduction to Wall Inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum (From Pompeii and Herculaneum)
Rex E. Wallace

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2005

This edition is a representative selection of the various types of inscriptions, from political manifestos to gladiatorial announcements, found in the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. These inscriptions, painted and incised on the walls of public and private buildings, document aspects of daily life in the first century A.D. Inscriptions, particularly graffiti, were often written by less educated members of society, and as such ...

Discovery of Ancient America

1 review
David Allen Deal

Kherem La Yah Pr, 1984

from the book...
Author: David Allen Deal On the right bank of the Rio Puercos, some thirty miles southwest of Albuquerque, in the brown, barren waste of Valencia County, New Mexico, stands a volcanic mesa. The people in the general area call it "Hidden Mountain" or Mystery Mountain" but the Indians retain its more ancient title, "Cerro Los Moqujino" ("Cliff of the Strange Writings"). These names aptly ...

Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History (Approaching the Ancient World)

2 reviews
Marc Va Mieroop

Routledge, 1999

Tour de Force
This is a fantastic survey of the problems (and joys) of writing histories of the ancient Near East. This book rewards both novices and scholars in the field! The author is obviously familiar with the most up to date scholarship in Assyriology. The treatment of issues relating to intellectual history and the role of women in antiquity are expecially satisfying. Accessible and brief, the ...

The Literature of the Sages, Midrash, and Targum; Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism; Contracts, Inscriptions, ...

Fortress Press, 2007

This long-awaited companion volume to The Literature of the Sages, First Part (Fortress Press, 1987) brings to completion Section II of the renowned Compendia series, published cooperatively with Van Gorcum of Amsterdam. The Literature of the Sages, Second Part, explores the literary creation of thousands of ancient Jewish teachers, the often- anonymous Sages of late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Essays by premier scholars provide a careful ...

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