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What's new? |
Problem set 5: French proclamation in Egypt |
What? |
The written remains of ancient cultures--if we can read them--tell us a great deal about how the human world got the way it is. Over the last two centuries, scholars have managed to decipher Ancient Egyptian, the cuneiform scripts of the Middle East, and (most recently) the Maya hieroglyphs of Central America. This course looks at how they did it. Problem sets involving authentic ancient inscriptions will be used to show how historical and linguistic knowledge, careful reasoning, and dumb luck have led to successful decipherments in the past, and may produce additional successes in the future. (3 credits, Humanities) |
Who? |
Instructor: | William Baxter, Associate Professor Program in Linguistics | Department of Asian Languages and Cultures |
| Office: | 3094 Frieze Building 1285 | |
| Telephone: | (734) 763-3704 (office) | |
| e-mail: | wbaxter@umich.edu | |
| | home page: | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wbaxter/ |
When? |
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 am -- 10:00 am | |
Where? |
3527 Frieze Building |