Inscriptions, Epigraphy

Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Interpreting the Ancient Maya

Born in Siberia during a turbulent period in Russian history, Tatiana Proskouriakoff came to America with her family when her father was commissioned during World War I by Czar Nicholas...

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Sentinel's Soul

When the most valuable power source on the planet is the human soul, protecting humanity is more than an essential service. Arturo Morales, a supernatural hybrid known as a sentinel,...

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Disembodied Souls: The Nefesh in Israel and Kindred Spirits in the Ancient Near East, with an Appendix on the Katumuwa Inscription

Biblical scholars have long claimed that the Israelites "could not conceive of a disembodied nefesh soul]." In this book, Richard C. Steiner rejects that claim based on a broad spectrum...

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Women Officeholders in Early Christianity: Epigraphical and Literary Studies

Women Officeholders in Early Christianity is a scholarly investigation of the evidence for women holding offices of authority in the first several centuries of Christianity. Ute Eisen focuses on inscriptions...

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Reading the Maya Glyphs

Decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing has progressed to the point where most Maya written texts--whether inscribed on monuments, written in the codices, or painted or incised on ceramics--can now be...

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Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing

The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing is an important story of intellectual discovery and a tale of code breaking comparable to the interpreting of Egyptian hieroglyphs and the decoding of...

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Translating Maya Hieroglyphs

Maya hieroglyphic writing may seem impossibly opaque to beginning students, but scholar Scott A. J. Johnson presents it as a regular and comprehensible system in this engaging, easy-to-follow textbook. The...

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The Decipherment of Linear B

The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern...

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The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume Two: Codical Texts Volume 264

This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail provide a comprehensive listing of graphemes found in the Dresden, Madrid,...

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Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945

Voices of Angel Island is a historical and literary anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island, designed to provide a conduit for readers today to connect with...

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Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs

This authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script's complete deciphering, offering a much-needed, comprehensive catalogue of 1100 secured glyphs. Each entry includes the...

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Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes

Of outstanding value to both runologist and Anglo-Saxonist alike. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE Discussion of the forms of the runic alphabet and interpretations of individual inscriptions, with consideration of wider matters...

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L'anfiteatro Flavio nei suoi venti secoli di storia

L'anfiteatro Flavio nei suoi venti secoli di storia Gli incend, i terremoti, i saccheggi, le fazioni medioevali, le prepotenze dei baroni, la lontananza del Papa dalla sua sede, gli sconvolgimenti...

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El Morro Trails: El Morro National Monument, New Mexico

El Morro Trails: El Morro National Monument, New MexicoIn the year 1540, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado came up from Mexico with some 350 Spanish soldiers and crossed southeastern Arizona to...

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London Signs and Inscriptions

London Signs and InscriptionsUNTIL the beginning of this century, I may almost say till the development of our railway system some fifty years ago, though London was continually spreading in...

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The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle

The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle - With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of ObelisksChapter II. (Page 12.) The goddess Nekheb, the tutelary deity of...

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Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions

Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions - Their Relation to Archæology, Language, and ReligionThis little work originated in two papers, read before the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. They were designed to direct the attention...

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Cleopatra's Needle

Cleopatra's Needle - A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the HieroglyphicsThe London Obelisk, as the monument standing on the Thames Embankment is now called, is by...

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Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour

Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour - Lakes George and Champlain; Niagara; Montreal; QuebecThis book is a group of narratives of the most striking events of our colonial history connected...

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Maes-Howe

Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys As the following pages are intended only for private circulation among friends and acquaintances, and for presentation to those...

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Inscripções portuguezas

Inscripções portuguezas Title: Inscripes portuguezas Author: Luciano Cordeiro Release Date: March 17, 2009 [EBook #28348] Language: Portuguese Credits: Produced by Rita Farinha and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net...

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