The riddle of the Rosetta : how an English polymath and a French polyglot discovered the meaning of...
The riddle of the Rosetta : how an English polymath and a French polyglot discovered the meaning of...
The riddle of the Rosetta : how an English polymath and a French polyglot discovered the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs / Jed Z. Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/3811
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English
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xi, 561 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2020]
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"In 1799, a French officer was clearing debris from a military installation when he discovered a stele bearing three scripts: ancient Greek, hieroglyphic, and a third that could not be definitively identified. This artifact, which came to be known as the Rosetta Stone, has traditionally played the starring role in the history of decipherment, which...
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The riddle of the Rosetta : how an English polymath and a French polyglot discovered the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs / Jed Z. Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-541) and indexes.
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©2020
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G 2020/3811
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74VKaMwpaM0d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMwpaM0d
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ISBN
0691200904 hardcover
9780691200903 hardcover
DDC
493.1
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991024345718202626
