Description: Visible Language : Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond, Paperback by Woods, Christopher (EDT); Emberling, Geoff (CON); Teeter, Emily (CON), ISBN 1885923767, ISBN-13 9781885923769, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Visible Language : Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle Ea
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Visible Language : Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond
Publisher: Institute for T.H.E. Study of Ancient Cultures of T.H.E. University of Chicago
Subject: Archaeology, Ancient / General, Alphabets & Writing Systems
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 30.8 Oz
Author: Christopher Woods
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, History
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Format: Trade Paperback
