Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs, Paperback - John Montgomery

Reducere. This authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script's complete deciphering, offering a much-needed, co...

Reducere. Yucatec Maya, the most widely spoken Maya language, can be heard throughout Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, in Belize, and in parts of Guatemala. This ...

Reducere. This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail p...

Reducere. For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a...

Publisher: AuthorHouseAuthor(s): John MontgomeryIllustration(s): colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 28Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 80 x 124 ...

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Reducere. A portal to the ancient hieroglyphic script of the Aztec Empire. For more than three millennia the cultures of Mesoamerica flourished, yielding the...

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Reducere. When Jean-François Champollion rediscovered how to translate the Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early nineteenth century he described them as "....a c...

Learn how to unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization with the help of this book. Featuring hundreds of the most commonly used hieroglyphs, ar...

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...

This dictionary defines a myriad of phrases and sayings that are used daily in the English language. It contains more than 10, 000 idioms, includin...

David Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its si...

The first ever guide to understanding Aztec hieroglyphs: a groundbreaking publication built on a lifetime of research by a world expert.Illustratio...

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Writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions. Without it there would be no history and no civilization as we know it. But how, when and where d...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): John Alexander Fuller-MaitlandIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 732Publication date: ...

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This new edition has been fully revised and updated to provide over 1, 800 A-Z definitions of terms from the field of social care, concentrating on...

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Dictionary of the Undoing is a necessary, resounding cri de coeur in defense of language, meaning, and our ability to imagine, describe, and build ...

A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleon...

Middle Egyptian introduces the reader to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons...

This is a major revision and expansion of what has long been recognized as a basic reference in its field. Besides updating the existing text, the ...

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It is every Muslim's duty to read the Koran and try to understand it, which can be a problematic task for those unacquainted with Arabic. The study...

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Discover the secrets of hieroglyphs, the language of the ancient Egyptians, with this innovative kit from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Learn the...

Reducere. Gerald Massey's masterwork is presented to readers anew in this splendid new edition, which combines all twelve books plus the appendix into a sing...

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