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Magical Tome
- First published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Pages
- 436 pages
- ISBN
- 9780521728263
The First Writing
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About this book
"The theme of this book is the first writing systems - early cuneiform, proto-Elamite, Egyptian (all prior to 3000 BC, by some centuries), Chinese (prior to 1000 BC), and Maya and its Mesoamerican precursors (beginning ca. 500 BC) ... [and it] also looks more briefly at what might be called 'secondary inventions', including late ones like Scandinavian runic" -- p. [3].
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