Palaeography (History of Writing)

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words in Hebrew scrip...

Grapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is growing increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account covering and connect...

This is the first synthesis on Egyptian enigmatic writing (also referred to as cryptography) in the New Kingdom (c.15501070 BCE). Enigmatic writing...

Since 1899 more than 73,000 pieces of inscribed divination shell and bone have been found inside the moated enclosure of the Anyang-core at the for...

Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization offers a coherent system of terms and categories for the study of the complex phenome...

Floods are among the most common and consequential natural disasters on Earth, occurring in all natural areas at all times. Yet, they often surpris...

This 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 platfo...

The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in ...

In this charming New York City souvenir gift book, children learn the alphabet and the city through the art in one of the worlds greatest museums. ...

A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, tr...

In 1978, Congolese inventor David Wabeladio Payi (19582013) proposed a new writing system, called Mandombe. Since then, Mandombe has grown and now ...

This volume contains the papers presented during the Meeting Off the Beaten Track Epigraphy at the Borders, the sixth in a series of international...

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...

A collection of 15 classic Chinese folk storiespassed down from generation to generationpresented in both Chinese and English.Welcome to the fascin...

This book provides a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of 98 typologically diverse minority languages in Southern China. A number of important...

The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today. Uniquely, thi...