Daniel Harbour


The Book of Lost Languages

Harbour, Daniel | THE BOOK OF LOST LANGUAGES


Boken utforskar konsten att tyda forntida skrifter och de förlorade världar som återuppstår genom dessa upptäckter.

  • En fascinerande resa genom språkets historia.

  • Berättar om decifrering av förlorade skriftsystem.

  • Utgiven som häftat band, 2026.

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-08

Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.
ISBN: 9781526645982

Omfång: 496 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-08

Förlagets information

An immersive journey into the art of decipherment and the lost past that emerges when ancient scripts are brought back to life.

An immersive journey into the art of decipherment and the lost past that emerges when ancient scripts are brought back to life

For centuries, the world's earliest writing stood unread. Only through the work of decipherers did their languages begin to speak again, revealing lives that were long forgotten.

The Book of Lost Languages is part detective story, part history, part linguistic adventure. It traces the epic journeys of decipherment, from the international strife that unearthed the Rosetta Stone, key to Egypt's hieroglyphs, to the drunken wager that unsealed Old Persian, and from the malaria cure that revealed China's most ancient writing to the proof by chocolate that Mayan writing had been unlocked behind the Cold War's Iron Curtain. From earliest victories to latest findings, Harbour chronicles the remarkable mental feats that have restored forgotten worlds.

As it moves through these discoveries, the book celebrates the minds behind them - their strengths and quirks, their brilliance and pettiness, their inexplicable flashes of insight. It reveals the astonishing engine that drives decipherment: when we unravel forgotten scripts, we connect across millennia with the minds that created them. Through these connections, we have extended our knowledge of written history by thousands of years.

The result is an exhilarating story of people and politics, dogma and doubt, genius and ingenuity, and of the beguiling artistry behind some of the greatest puzzles ever created.


The Book of Lost Languages av Daniel Harbour hittar du under Språkhistoria och jämförande språkvetenskap inom Språkvetenskap | Lingvistik i huvudkategorin Humaniora.

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