Glyph-Breaker

When he announced his successful decipherment of the Rongorongo script of Easter Island in 1996, Steven Roger Fischer joined the ranks of the great decipherers of all time. No one had ever deciphered not one but two ancient scripts. Both scripts, the Rongorongo writing and an ancient Cretan artifact called the Phaistos Disk, yielded information of great historical importance calling for a revision of current archaeological theories. Glyphbreaker is the exciting story of how Fischer did it, by the man who can claim the title of the greatest glyphbreaker who ever lived.

Fischers decipherments yielded important discoveries: that the Minoans, contrary to settled opinion, were closely related to the Greeks; and that Rongorongo script was a living script, used not only for rituals but for composition, and thus the only active system of writing in Oceania before the twentieth century * An absorbing, accessible account of how an ancient code is broken

Zusammenfassung
"...provides a step-by step account of how (Fischer) cracked this code, proceeding with the utmost care and objectivity, constantly modifying and improving his method, and gradually filling in the blanks." New Scientist

Inhalt
1 In Odysseus's Wake.- 2 Logos.- 3 The New Labyrinth.- 4 The Skein of Ariadne.- 5 Hear Ye, Cretans and Greeks!.- 6 The Battle of Naxos.- 7 Rapanui.- 8 Talking Boards of the Pacific.- 9 Atop Tere Vaka.- 10 All The Birds .- 11 Surfing the Rongorongo.- Suggested Reading.