From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: October 1, 1992| Author: Daniels, Peter T. | COPYRIGHT 1992 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Six of the British Museum's 64-page pamphlets in the "Reading the Past" series have been gathered into hard covers: Cuneiform, by C. B. F. Walker, pp. 14-73 (1987); Egyptian Hieroglyphs, by W. V. Davies, pp. 74-135 (1987); Linear B and Related Scripts, by John Chadwick, pp. 136-95 (1987); The Early Alphabet, by John F. Healey, pp. 196-257 (1991); Greek Inscriptions, by B. F. Cook, pp. 258-319 (1987); and Etruscan, by Larissa Bonfante, pp. 320-78 (1990). Runes, Maya Glyphs, and Mathem...