Lost Languages by Dina Anastasio

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Book: Lost Languages
Author: Dina Anastasio
ISBN: 978-0-02-202689-9

1. true
2. writings
3. the fragments of writing
4. codes
5. Rongorongo
6. no
7. Eugene Eyraud
8. Script
9. giant carved statues
10. between 1400 A.D.- 1600 A.D.
11. 13 feet
12. 14 tons (28,000 pounds)
13. They are stone pedestals about 4 feet high that the statues are placed on in the island.
14. About 20
15. 1) They think the pictures stand for words that form thoughts and stories.     2) They also think that the glyphs are only pictures and not writing at all.
16. Charles Masson
17. In the 1820s
18. India
19. True
20. True
21. A later Egyptian language
22. 1822
23. Jean Francois Champollion
24. in a cave
25. 800
26. goatskin and sheepskin
27. 11 caves
28. it is another word for book
29. 1838
30. 448 pages
31. 87 pictures
32. it has 10 times more symbols
33. Voynich Manuscript
34. In Italy
35. 1912
36. Roger Bacon
37. lenses
38. He wrote about building traveling machines
39. 1540
40. 1799
41. 1822
42. 1827
43. 1864
44. 1912