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The invention of cuneiform writing in Sumer Jean-Jacques Glassner ; translated and edited by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop

1. The Sumerian Account of the Invention of Writing -- 2. Time and Place of the Invention -- 3. Received Ideas: The Pictographic Origins of Cuneiform Writing -- 4. Received Ideas: The Origin of ...
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Reading the past : ancient writing from cuneiform to the alphabet / introduced by J.T. Hooker

Cuneiform / C.B.F. Walker -- Egyptian hieroglyphs / W.V. Davies -- Linear B / John Chadwick -- The early alphabet / John F. Healey -- Greek inscriptions / B.F. Cook ...