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Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt by : John Ray
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt written by John Ray and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series(Part I and Part II) The Rosetta Stone is one of the world's great wonders, attracting awed pilgrims by the tens of thousands each year. This book tells the Stone's story, from its discovery by Napoleon's expedition to Egypt to its current--and controversial-- status as the single most visited object on display in the British Museum. A pharaoh's forgotten decree, cut in granite in three scripts--Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic, and ancient Greek--the Rosetta Stone promised to unlock the door to the language of ancient Egypt and its 3,000 years of civilization, if only it could be deciphered. Capturing the drama of the race to decode this key to the ancient past, John Ray traces the paths pursued by the British polymath Thomas Young and Jean-Francois Champollion, the "father of Egyptology" ultimately credited with deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. He shows how Champollion "broke the code" and explains more generally how such deciphering is done, as well as its critical role in the history of Egyptology. Concluding with a chapter on the political and cultural controversy surrounding the Stone, the book also includes an appendix with a full translation of the Stone's text. Rich in anecdote and curious lore, The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt is a brilliant and frequently amusing guide to one of history's great mysteries and marvels.
Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone by : R. B. Parkinson
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone written by R. B. Parkinson and published by Objects in Focus. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rosetta Stone is one of the most popular artefacts in the British Museum. Containing a decree written in Greek, Demotic and hieroglyphics, it proved to be the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. This concise study traces the history of `the most famous piece of rock in the world' to become a modern icon and tells the story of the race to use it to decipher Egypt's ancient script by Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young. Also includes a translation of the text.
Book Synopsis The Writing of the Gods by : Edward Dolnick
Download or read book The Writing of the Gods written by Edward Dolnick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fast-paced and “engrossing account” (The New York Times Book Review) of “one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history” (The Christian Science Monitor): two rival geniuses in a race to decode the writing on one of the world’s most famous documents—the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting 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 lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages—in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs. Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt. Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest empire the world had ever known, yet everything about it—the pyramids, mummies, the Sphinx—was shrouded in mystery. Whoever was able to decipher the Rosetta Stone would solve that mystery and fling open a door that had been locked for two thousand years. Two brilliant rivals set out to win that prize. One was English, the other French, at a time when England and France were enemies and the world’s two great superpowers. Written “like a thriller” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), The Writing of the Gods chronicles this high-stakes intellectual race in which the winner would win glory for both himself and his nation. A riveting portrait of empires both ancient and modern, this is an unparalleled look at the culture and history of ancient Egypt, “and also a lesson…in what the human mind does when faced with a puzzle” (The New Yorker).
Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone by : Carol A. R. Andrews
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone written by Carol A. R. Andrews and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the Rosetta Stone, an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage -- two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta and contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing. The author tells of the discovery of the Stone, and the story of how its mystery was solved.
Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone by : E. A. Wallis Budge
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone written by E. A. Wallis Budge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating account of great linguistic detective story — discovery of Stone, history of the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics; work of Young, Champollion, other scholars; much more. 23 photographs. Bibliography.
Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone by : E. A. Wallis Sir Budge
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone written by E. A. Wallis Sir Budge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rosetta Stone by E. A. Wallis Sir Budge is an interesting and educational book. This volume tells the story of the Rosetta Stone, starting from its discovery during a French military excavation to its preservation in the British Museum as one of the great cornerstones of linguistic studies. The book contains a full and detailed explanation of the meticulous scholarship and inspired impulse that allowed a handful of scholars to decrypt the age-old code. With over 20 photographs, The Rosetta Stone is immensely academic but unstuffy; packed with linguistic details but clear and attainable to the layman; in short, it will fascinate any student of Egyptology, languages, or the history of the ancient Near East. Egyptologists' ground-breaking contributions and the work of linguists over the years eventually led to a true knowledge of the once enigmatic symbols. The book covers the history and meaning of the Rosetta Stone from an academic and also analytical point of view.
Download or read book Cracking Codes written by R. B. Parkinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon's troops discovered a granitoid slab in the village of Rosetta in the western Delta in 1799. The Rosetta Stone was to become one of the most famous Egyptian antiquities in the world as well as an instantly recognizable icon of script and decipherment. In this exciting, beautifully illustrated work, Richard Parkinson tells the story of the Stone's discovery and the so-called battle of the decipherers that it inspired. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the British Museum celebrating the bicentenary of the Stone's discovery, and including a selective catalog of the exhibits, this book also examines the wider issues of script and writing in ancient Egypt and beyond. The Rosetta Stone is a fragment of a stela inscribed with a priestly decree in honor of Ptolemy V. The main significance of the text lies not in its content, however, but in the fact that it is written in three scripts--hieroglyphic, demotic, and ancient Greek. Early Orientalists recognized immediately the potential of the Stone for the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Thomas Young made great advances, especially with the demotic text, but it was Jean-Fran�ois Champollion who made the final breakthrough in 1822. In so doing he cracked much more than two Egyptian scripts: He opened up Egyptian culture as a whole to historians. Among the subjects discussed in Cracking Codes are the relationship between hieroglyphs and art, the social prestige of literacy, and the power of writing and its practical aspects (scribal equipment and training). A brief description of other decipherments is also given, drawing on examples such as Linear B and Meroitic--a language which remains to be read. A selection of the History Book Club, the Book-of-the-Month Club, and the Quality Paperback Book Club
Book Synopsis A Translation of the Rosetta Stone by : Randolph Greenfield Adams
Download or read book A Translation of the Rosetta Stone written by Randolph Greenfield Adams and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rosetta stone by : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Download or read book The Rosetta stone written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone. (Revised.) [By Sir E.A.T.W. Budge.]. by : British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone. (Revised.) [By Sir E.A.T.W. Budge.]. written by British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone written by E A Budge and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rosetta Stone remains one of the world's most recognizable ancient artifacts, and has come to symbolize not only Egypt, but also the art of translation. Dating from the Macedonian Ptolemaic era in Egypt (ca 196 BC), the Rosetta Stone contains a royal decree by King Ptolemy V, set out in three languages: in hieroglyphic (suitable for a priestly decree), demotic (the native script used for daily purposes), and Greek (the language of the administration). By the fourth century AD, all knowledge and understanding of hieroglyphs had been lost by the mixed-race population, and it was only some 1400 years later, after the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, that scholars were able to use the Greek inscription on the stone as the deciphering key. Thomas Young, an English physicist, was the first to show that some of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name, that of Ptolemy. The French scholar Jean-François Champollion then realized that hieroglyphs recorded the sound of the Egyptian language and laid the foundations of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian language and culture. In this work, EA Wallis Budge, perhaps the British Museum's most famous Egyptian section curator of all time, tells the story of the stone and exactly how it was eventually deciphered. Starting with the events surrounding the stone's discovery-by French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte-and its capture by the British army and its transportation to London, Budge then discusses the slow process through which the hieroglyphic part of the stone was eventually deciphered. The majority of the booklet is given over to a graphic explanation of the logical process used to translate the Rosetta Stone, and how, by cross-referencing it with the Coptic language and by using other clues the mystery of the ancient Egyptian's written language was eventually unlocked. Finally, Budge provides a fascinating transcript of what the Rosetta Stone actually says.
Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone by : E. A. Wallis Budge
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone written by E. A. Wallis Budge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Egyptologist's fascinating account of the discovery of the linguistic keystone that enabled scholars to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Work of Young, Champollion, other scholars; implications for biblical scholarship, history of ancient Near East, much more. Clear, concise, accessible to layman. 23 photographs. Bibliography.
Book Synopsis The Rosetta stone. Printed by order of the trustees of the British museum by : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Download or read book The Rosetta stone. Printed by order of the trustees of the British museum written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone by : Carol A. R. Andrews
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone written by Carol A. R. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone by : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone, in Hieroglyphics and Greek; with Translations, and an Explanation of the Hieroglyphical Characters, and Followed by an Appendix of Kings'names, Etc by : Samuel Sharpe
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone, in Hieroglyphics and Greek; with Translations, and an Explanation of the Hieroglyphical Characters, and Followed by an Appendix of Kings'names, Etc written by Samuel Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum by : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Download or read book The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by Ams PressInc. This book was released on 1929 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating account of great linguistic detective story - discovery of Stone, history of the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics; work of Young, Champollion, other scholars; much more. 23 photographs. Bibliography.
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