The Epic of Gilgamish
Author | : Reginald Campbell Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Akkadian language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Reginald Campbell Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Akkadian language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen D. Houston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2004-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521838610 |
In this book, leading scholars in the field discuss and analyse the origins of ancient writing.
Author | : Charles Halton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110705205X |
This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.
Author | : Richard Kern |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1107036488 |
Language, Literacy, and Technology explores how technology matters to language and the ways we use it.
Author | : Ludovico degli Arrighi |
Publisher | : New York City : Chiswick Book Shop ; New Haven : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Alphabets |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Feng Li |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295804505 |
The emergence and spread of literacy in ancient human society an important topic for all who study the ancient world, and the development of written Chinese is of particular interest, as modern Chinese orthography preserves logographic principles shared by its most ancient forms, making it unique among all present-day writing systems. In the past three decades, the discovery of previously unknown texts dating to the third century BCE and earlier, as well as older versions of known texts, has revolutionized the study of early Chinese writing. The long-term continuity and stability of the Chinese written language allow for this detailed study of the role literacy played in early civilization. The contributors to Writing and Literacy in Early China inquire into modes of manuscript production, the purposes for which texts were produced, and the ways in which they were actually used. By carefully evaluating current evidence and offering groundbreaking new interpretations, the book illuminates the nature of literacy for scribes and readers.
Author | : Steven Roger Fischer |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1861895887 |
From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a format that everyone can follow. Steven Roger Fischer also reveals his own discoveries made since the early 1980s, making it a useful reference for students and specialists as well as a delightful read for lovers of the written word everywhere.
Author | : Jenny Ackland |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Copybooks |
ISBN | : 9780198380535 |
Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620402858 |
Chronicles social media over two millennia, from papyrus letters that Cicero used to exchange news across the Empire to today, reminding us how modern behavior echoes that of prior centuries and encouraging debate and discussion about how we'll communicate in the future.
Author | : University of Chicago. Oriental Institute |
Publisher | : Oriental Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Cuneiform writing |
ISBN | : 9781885923769 |
This unique exhibit is the result of collaborative efforts of more than twenty authors and loans from five museums. It focuses on the independent invention of writing in at least four different places in the Old world and Mesoamerica with the earliest texts of Uruk, Mesopotamia (5,300 BC) shown in the United States for the first time. Visitors to the exhibit and readers of this catalog can see and compare the parallel pathways by which writing came into being and was used by the earliest kingdoms of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the Maya world.