TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Andrew
TI  - The story of writing
AV  - P211.R658.S767 1995 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Thames and Hudson
KW  - Writing
KW  - History
KW  - Paleography
N1  - "With over 350 illustrations, 50 in color."; 1 (pages 218-219) and index; Reading the Rosetta Stone --; Sound, symbol and script --; Proto-writing --; Cuneiform --; Egyptian hieroglyphics --; Linear B --; Mayan glyphs --; Undeciphered scripts: Indus script, Cretan Linear B, The Phaistos disc, Proto-Elamite, Etruscan, Rongorongo --; The first alphabet --; New alphabets from old: Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, the Arabic script, Indian scripts, Runes, The Cherokee "alphabet" -- Chinese writing --; Japanese writing --; From hieroglyphs to alphabets --; and back?; 2
ER  -