Author Description

"Although it is alleged that Africans were always illiterate, archaeological, historical, and epigraphic evidence indicate that Africans invented many writing systems. And that these writing systems were used from ancient times all the way up to the present. In Archaeological Decipherment of Ancient Writing Systems, you will learn how I deciphered the Indus Valley writing, Olmec writing, Meroitic and Linear A. The reader will learn that the decipherment of ancient languages demands that you have to 1) understand the history of writing, 2) understand the history of an area or region where the language was spoken and in the possible influence of diffusion in that particular part of the world, 3) understand what peoples from the Old World may have influenced the region where the undeciphered writing was found; and 4) have a strong desire to learn a new language. In Archaeological Decipherment of Ancient Writing Systems I explain how archaeological evidence indicates that African literary began in the Sahara over 5000 years ago. This earliest form of writing was a syllabic system we call Thinite, that included hundreds of phonetic signs, which over time was shorten to between 22 and 30 key signs, and used as an alphabet by the Mande people of the Fezzan and Niger, Dravidian speaking people in India, the Sumerians, Elamites, the Xi (Olmecs), Egyptians, Meroites, Phonesians and Ethiopians." --Author's notes from back cover.