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Cryptolinguistics Books
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,757 ratings — published 2013
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,353 ratings — published -1500
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 506 ratings — published 2002
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,319 ratings — published 2021
How Dead Languages Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 221 ratings — published
Cuneiform (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.28 — 402 ratings — published 2015
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,070 ratings — published 2015
Unveiling the Mystic Ciphers: Thomas Anson and the Shepherd's Monument Inscription (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 2014
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,531 ratings — published 2013
A Companion to Linear B: Mycenean Greek Texts and Their World (A Companion to Linear B, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 2011
Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.33 — 185 ratings — published 2012
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,829 ratings — published 2011
Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing: The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2000
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,374 ratings — published 2011
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,614 ratings — published 2010
The Linear B Decipherment Controversy Re-Examined (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1972
The Library of Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,580 ratings — published 1941
Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 121 ratings — published 2003
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,406 ratings — published 1999
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,306 ratings — published 2001
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 237 ratings — published 2002
Breaking the Maya Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 793 ratings — published 1992
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,783 ratings — published 1999
Hieroglyph Detective: How to Decode the Sacred Language of the Ancient Egyptians (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 3.95 — 38 ratings — published 2010
Extinct Languages (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 3.52 — 114 ratings — published 1957
Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.15 — 54 ratings — published 1990
Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 3.65 — 31 ratings — published 1996
Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Reading the Past)
by (shelved 1 time as cryptolinguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 33 ratings — published 1988
“[...] a good interpretation makes sense of such an impressive amount of mutually corroborating data that coincidence must be excluded. Such a result cannot be reached without sound practice and good method.”
― A Companion to Linear B: Mycenean Greek Texts and Their World
― A Companion to Linear B: Mycenean Greek Texts and Their World
