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The World's Writing SystemsThe World's Writing Systems
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authoritative survey
The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya ScriptThe Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphs to Maya Script by Maurice Pope
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readable history of decipherment
Extinct LanguagesExtinct Languages by Johannes Friedrich
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written by a foremost scholar
Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System/Volume 78 (American Oriental Series)Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System/Volume 78 (American Oriental Series) by W. Boltz
both a survey and an original theory of the subject
Breaking the Maya CodeBreaking the Maya Code by Michael D. Coe
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a unique and dramatic story
The Decipherment of Linear B (Canto)The Decipherment of Linear B (Canto) by John Chadwick
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perhaps the most influential decipherment of the century
Deciphering the Indus ScriptDeciphering the Indus Script by Asko Parpola
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one of the most important undeciphered scripts
Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 14)Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 14) by Steven Roger Fischer
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a challenge for future decipherment
Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and DeciphermentCracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment by Richard Parkinson
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Champollion's tour de force