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W A Cummins - Decoding the Pictish Symbols - 9780752452395 - V9780752452395
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Decoding the Pictish Symbols

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Description for Decoding the Pictish Symbols Paperback. The Picts, the most powerful nation in northern Britain for some 500 years, mysteriously disappeared from contemporary records in the ninth century. This title opens up an understanding of who the Picts were and the world in which they lived. It is suitable for those interested in the Picts. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 173 x 14. Weight in Grams: 542.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752452395
SKU
V9780752452395
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