Granada Publishing Paladin 1961

The unreadable message intrigues, frustrates and torments the scholar until his skills enable him to tease out the meaning hidden in unknown alphabets and unidentified languages. This is the fascinating account of the erudite detective work behind the decoding of these scripts, from cuneiform to runic, from the riddle of the Sphinx to the mystery of Easter Island, from the disc of Phaistos to Linear B...