Barry Fell worked with Gloria Farley. Her book, “They All Came to America” describes inscriptions including runes, Celt-Iberian, north African, and a number of other languages and religious images.
Thirty years ago I was at the Epcot Center in Orlando, and saw a cup labeled as Central American which looked exactly like Japanese art. I took a year of History and Appreciation of Art in college, and Asian art was one of the topics we covered.
I had to take a class to satisfy a humanities requirement many years ago and chose Art Appreciation thinking ‘what the hey’, and enjoyed the class very much.
I should re-read Barry Fell's books, and finish tracking down the old back issues of ESOP.