The Mystery of the Hieroglyphs

by Carol Donoughue

Book Overview

For more than 15 centuries, no one could read the strange-looking Egyptian hieroglyphs. And then in 1799 a French soldier in Napoleon's army in Egypt stumbled across the Rosetta Stone, an ancient inscription recorded in Greek, hieroglyphs, and demotic script. Many of the brightest scholars of the time--Egyptologists, historians, and linguists--as well as detectives, professional code breakers, and plain amateurs, all set out to decipher the forgotten...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195215532
• ISBN13: 9780195215533
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher