Archibald Henry Sayce - The Hittites: The Story of a Forgotten Empire
Archibald Henry Sayce was born in Shirehampton, Bristol, to a family of Shropshire descent.Sayce was a fragile child who suffered from tuberculosis. Although this meant he started his education late he soon caught up, aided by a private tutor. By age ten he was reading Homer in the original Greek.He attended The Queen's College, Oxford, and became a fellow in 1869.In 1874 Sayce published a long paper, 'The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians'. It was one of the first publications to recognise and translate astronomical cuneiform texts. By 1876, he had deciphered one of the hieroglyphics inscribed on stones at Hamath in Syria, by de…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78780-181-3
- EAN: 9781787801813
- Produktnummer: 32877832
- Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 60 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.3 cm 95 g
- Gewicht: 95
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