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Decoding the Pictish Symbols
Engelsk Paperback
Decoding the Pictish Symbols
Engelsk Paperback

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The Picts, the most powerful nation in northern Britain for some 500 years, mysteriously disappeared from contemporary records in the ninth century. All that remains of the language they spoke are a few fragments in the names of places or people. Their most enduring memorial is a unique system of symbols carved on stone monuments, engraved on objects of silver and bronze and scratched on the walls of caves - symbols whose interpretation has been as elusive as that of the Egyptian hieroglyphs before the discovery of the Rosetta stone. In this important book, Dr Cummins seeks to unravel the code behind these mystifying symbols by following up a variety of historical and archaeological clues. In doing so he opens up a deeper understanding of who the Picts were and the world in which they lived. This book is a must-have for anyone interested in the Picts and fascinated by the perennial mysteries of the Dark Ages.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780752452395
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0752452398
Udg. Dato:
1 okt 2009
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
173mm
Højde:
246mm
Forlag:
The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
1 okt 2009
Forfatter(e):
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