This richly illustrated book is about codebreakers, a unique group of people who dedicate their professional lives to unravelling the mysteries of ancient scripts. It proved to be an interesting and educational read. The book defines the difference in the roles of the epigrapher and the cryptanalyst, who are both deciphers. The epigrapher works with a script not originally designed to baffle the reader, and an underlying language which the reader may or may not know. The cryptanalyst tackles a code or cipher designed from the outset to baffle him or her, but an underlying language – such as German,…