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title: 'How the Terra Cotta Books Were Read'
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authors:
- 'Walter William Moore'
date: 1893-11-01
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- 'Psalms 19'
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# How the Terra Cotta Books Were Read

1893 Union Seminary Magazine: obituary of B. M. Smith and W. W. Moore's essay on deciphering cuneiform, tracing writing's evolution from pictographs to alphabets and Chinese phonograms.

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