Sign, symbol, script [videorecording] : origins of written communications and the birth of the alphabet / written & produced by Menahem Mansoor.
2004
P211 .S54 2004 (Mapit)
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Sign, symbol, script [videorecording] : origins of written communications and the birth of the alphabet / written & produced by Menahem Mansoor.
Publication Details
Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004, 1999.
Language
English
Description
1 videodisc (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Call Number
P211 .S54 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
411
Distributor No.
FFH 9299 Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Summary
Traces the development of written communication and the birth of the alphabet from ancient rock and cave paintings, pictures, signs, symbols, cuneiform, hieroglyphs, Chinese systems of writing systems to the Phoenicians, Paleo-Hebrew, Greek and Roman alphabets in about 1400 B.C.
Note
Originally produced by the University of Wisconsin Instructional Media Development Center in 1996.
Narrator, Karl Schmidt.
Narrator, Karl Schmidt.
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DVD.
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