The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

by Jed Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz, Jed Z. Buchwald

Book Overview

A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Europe In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology--that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691233969
• ISBN13: 9780691233963
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"