Reading the past John Chadwick. Linear B and related scripts. ISBN 0-7141-8068-8. B.F. Cook. Greek inscriptions. ISBN 0-7141-8064-5. W.V. Davies. Egyptian hieroglyphs. ISBN 0-7141-8063-7. O.A.W. Dilke. Mathematics and measurement. ISBN 0-7141-8067-X.

The concept is eerie and original. But I wish I had known that it involved a character created by Neil Gaiman, so I could have chosen not to read it. The reader is not notified until the acknowledgements at the end.

The editing and translation are both a little choppy in places.