Visible language: inventions of writing in the ancient Middle East and beyond ; [in conjunction with the Exhibition Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond]
This unique exhibit is the result of collaborative efforts of more than twenty authors and loans from five museums. It focuses on the independent invention of writing in at least four different places in the Old world and Mesoamerica with the earliest texts of Uruk, Mesopotamia (5,300 BC) shown in t...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill.
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
c 2010
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| In: |
Oriental Institute Museum publications (32)
Year: 2010 |
| Series/Journal: | Oriental Institute Museum publications
32 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Near East
/ Writing
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Writing History
B Writing (Middle East) History Exhibitions B Egyptian language Writing History Exhibitions B Picture-writing History Exhibitions B Cuneiform writing History Exhibitions B Writing History Exhibitions |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | This unique exhibit is the result of collaborative efforts of more than twenty authors and loans from five museums. It focuses on the independent invention of writing in at least four different places in the Old world and Mesoamerica with the earliest texts of Uruk, Mesopotamia (5,300 BC) shown in the United States for the first time. Visitors to the exhibit and readers of this catalog can see and compare the parallel pathways by which writing came into being and was used by the earliest kingdoms of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the Maya world |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| ISBN: | 1885923767 |