The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics - Couverture souple

Valbelle, Dominique; Sole, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1861973446 ISBN 13 : 9781861973443

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

In July 1799 a French officer serving in Bonaparte's army in Egypt made an interesting discovery. A granite slab unearthed near the small town of Rosetta bore texts in three different scripts - Greek, demotic Egyptian and hieroglyphs. For the first time there was a real hope of decoding Egyptian writing. The Stone was soon stolen from the French by the British Army and removed to the British Museum in London. Now began a remarkable and highly competitive intellectual adventure in which some of the best minds of the time took part. Thomas Young, a remarkable English polymath and physician, and Johann David Akerblad, a Swedish diplomat, made valiant progress towards a solution, but the code was finally cracked by the tireless French orientalist Jean-Fran?ois Champollion. The texts of Ancient Egypt could now be read again after fourteen centuries.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dominique Valbelle is Director of the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Lille III and President of the French Egyptological Society.

Robert Sole, whose origins are Egyptian, is a novelist (published here by Harvill) and journalist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861973446
• ISBN 13: 9781861973443
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible