Lesley Adkins

Empires of the Plain (eBook, ePUB)

Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon (Text Only)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007452378
• Artikelnr.: 37980281

Autorenporträt

Lesley Adkins, an archaeologist and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, is the author of several reference books on archaelogy and ancient history, as well as The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Read the Hieroglyphs, the account of the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs by Jean-Francois Champollion, which was published to great acclaim in 2000. She lives in Devon, and is married to Roy Adkins, also an archaeologist and writer.