Cracking codes : the Rosetta stone and decipherment /

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Author / Creator:Parkinson, R. B.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
Description:208 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3983900
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Varying Form of Title:Rosetta stone and decipherment
Other authors / contributors:Diffie, Whitfield.
Fischer, M. (Mary)
Simpson, R. S.
ISBN:0520223063
9780520223066
0520222482 (pbk.)
9780520222489 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 202) and index.

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