Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners
By: Joshua Bowen
4.48
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Sumerian is the world's oldest written language, but the ability to read it is restricted to the lu…
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1. The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
By: Irving Finkel
3.96
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of t… read more
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"Studying the world's oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked like wi…"-Irving Finkel, The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
"…для прочтения клинописного текста надо сначала идентифицировать определенный знак, затем понять, использован ли он как логограмма, силлабограмма, фонетический комплемент или детерминатив, и только п…"-Irving Finkel, The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
3. A Brief Introduction to the Semitic Languages
By: None
4.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
With a written history of nearly five thousand years, the Semitic languages comprise one of the wor… read more
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4. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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5. The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
By: Irving Finkel
4.03
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
Ghosts - the spirits of the dead - have walked by our side since time immemorial.In The First Ghost… read more
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"It is only the early human mid that grew to strive against the prospect of the final annihilation of the self, a hallmark rebellion that became hard-wired into, and always an essential element of, na…"-Irving Finkel, The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
6. Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners
By: Joshua Bowen
4.48
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Sumerian is the world's oldest written language, but the ability to read it is restricted to the lu… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Joshua Bowen's Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners book and Joshua Bowen's Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners
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