Cretan Pictographs and Prae-Phoenician Script: With an Account of a Sepulchral Deposit at Hagios Onuphrios Near Phaestos in Its Relation to Primitive

by Arthur John Evans and Sir Arthur Evans

Book Overview

Sir Arthur John Evans (1851-1941) famously excavated the ruins of Knossos on Crete and uncovered the remains of its Bronze Age Minoan civilisation (as described in his multi-volume work The Palace of Minos at Knossos, also reissued in this series). But he had already visited the island prior to this: in 1894, during his first trip, he found examples of an ancient pictographic writing system that pre-dated the Phoenician alphabet later adapted by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108060978
• ISBN13: 9781108060974
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"