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The Writing of the Gods - The Race to decode the Rosetta Stone

Paperback • 2022 • English

The Writing of the Gods - The Race to decode the Rosetta Stone

By Edward Dolnick

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"The Rosetta Stone attracts millions of visitors to the British Museum every year, and yet most people don't really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a long lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the mightiest empire the world had ever known, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages.... The book chronicles the high-stakes intellectual race in which the ...Show more

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9781501198946

Published year

2022

Language

English

Original title

The Writing of the Gods - The Race to decode the Rosetta Stone

Format

Paperback

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