Mystery of the Hieroglyphs The Story of the Rosetta Stone and the Race to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Name: Mystery of the Hieroglyphs The Story of the Rosetta Stone and the Race to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs
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ISBN: 9780195218503

ISBN-10: 0195218507

ISBN-13: 9780195218503

Edition: N/A

Authors: Carol Donoughue

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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 words. Carol Donoughue tells us the fascinating story of the hieroglyphs and the race to decipher them, explaining how this curious writing system began with simple drawings of everyday objects. She compares the hieroglyphic system to modern…

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List price: $12.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/14/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 48
Size: 10.70" wide x 8.50" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



How the Egyptians wrote


How we know


The discovery of the Rosetta Stone


Thomas Young


Jean Francois Champollion


Success at last


Champollion goes to Egypt


Reading hieroglyphs


Further reading


Glossary


Index