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

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The legendary rivalry behind the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphsIn 1799, a French 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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Buchwald, Jed Z. (Autor), Josefowicz, Diane Greco (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Egyptian language > Writing, Hieroglyphic.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Andrew Robinson.
Cracking the Egyptian Code.
Demotic script.
Egyptian archaeology.
Egyptology.
Fort Julien.
Herculaneum Papyri.
Howard Carter.
Institut d'Égypte.
International Congress of Orientalists.
Jacques-François Menou.
Karnak.
King Ptolemy.
King Tut's tomb.
Lesley Adkins.
Memphis.
Pierre-François Bouchard.
Ptolemaic dynasty.
Ptolemy V Epiphanes.
Roy Adkins.
The Keys to Egypt.
Thomas Norton Longman.
ancient Greek.
ancient civilizations.
antiquarianism.
archaeology.
linguistics.
paleography.
philology.
semantics.
stele.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • PART 1. A QUAKER'S ODYSSEY
  • PART 2. ANTIQUITY EMBRACED
  • PART 3. SCRIPTS AND BONES
  • PART 4. READING THE PAST
  • PART 5. ANTIQUE LETTERS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index

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