The lost languages

Collection title

Collection Bibliotheca Alexandrina

ID

BIB00036

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

02/26/2007

Production year

2007

Abstract

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Calligraphy Center organized a lecture entitled “Lost Languages : the enigma of the world's great undeciphered scripts” by Dr. Andrew Robinson. He is the literary editor of The Times higher education supplement ( London ). Robinson shed light on the most important scripts needed to be deciphered Indus script, it is found on seal stones, pottery and copper tablets excavated in Pakistan and India . It is the only writing of the four “first” civilizations that can't be read. Unraveled, it would not only break the millennia-long silence of the impressive Indus valley civilization, it would also shed new light on the origins of the Indo-European ancestors of the modern West. Then, there were the Etruscans, who have spellbound the imagination since Renaissance times.

Type

video

Production companies

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Conference

Personalities

• Robinson Andrew

Primary theme

Languages and literatures

Secondary themes

• Society and way of life / Education, teaching
• Art, Culture and Knowledge / Science / Human and social sciences

Credits / Cast

• Robinson Andrew - Speaker

Period of events

• 2007

Map locations

• Egypt - Lower Egypt - Alexandria

Original language

English

Media running time

17m15