Kodai Moji No Kaidoku (Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Mysterious patterns whose pronunciation is unknown - Egyptian inscriptions, cuneiform, Hittite, Ugaritic, and Mycenaean texts. In this book, a leading authority on linguistics and Old Testament studies provides a plain and accurate description of the patient and exciting process of deducing, hypothesizing, and verifying the major ancient scripts until they were deciphered. This is an exciting book that allows the reader to experience an exchange with the past that transcends thousands of years, together with our ancestors!

発音も不明な謎に満ちた文様―エジプト聖刻文字、楔形文字、ヒッタイト文書、ウガリット文書、ミュケーナイ文書。主要古代文字が解読されるまで推理、仮説、検証を重ねた、気の遠くなるような忍耐と興奮の軌跡を、言語学と旧約聖書研究の泰斗が平易かつ正確に描写。数千年を超えた過去との交流を先人とともに体感できる、心躍る書!