It’s Tuesday, Where Are You? / Teaser Tuesdays

I’m taking a (non-fiction) tour through the ancient world, investigating dead languages - those that have been deciphered and those which remain a mystery.

Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson.

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

• Grab your current read.
  
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
  
• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
  
• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from - that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Champollion was still unaware of this complexity. For despite his success with Egyptian names, he was yet to take the plunge and accept that all hieroglyphic words, not just proper names, might have phonetic elements.

From Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson, p. 69.