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Understanding 9/11Decoding ancient history : a toolkit for the historian as detective
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viii, 231 pages : 24 cm
The authors present clues locked within artifacts, woven into oral tradition, encrypted in ancient writing, and embedded in the land itself which help to decipher some of ancient history's most intriguing cases
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index
The images of Lascaux -- Real estate records from Babylonia -- Nestor and the decipherment of Linear B -- David and legend -- The proto-literate world -- Croesus and coinage -- Word portraits of Socrates -- Philip of Macedon : reconstructing the pieces -- Psychohistory : in search of Alexander -- Private Roman letters : "If you are well, I am well" -- We see by their eyes
The authors present clues locked within artifacts, woven into oral tradition, encrypted in ancient writing, and embedded in the land itself which help to decipher some of ancient history's most intriguing cases
The authors present clues locked within artifacts, woven into oral tradition, encrypted in ancient writing, and embedded in the land itself which help to decipher some of ancient history's most intriguing cases
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index
The images of Lascaux -- Real estate records from Babylonia -- Nestor and the decipherment of Linear B -- David and legend -- The proto-literate world -- Croesus and coinage -- Word portraits of Socrates -- Philip of Macedon : reconstructing the pieces -- Psychohistory : in search of Alexander -- Private Roman letters : "If you are well, I am well" -- We see by their eyes
The authors present clues locked within artifacts, woven into oral tradition, encrypted in ancient writing, and embedded in the land itself which help to decipher some of ancient history's most intriguing cases
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