The Rosetta Stone: (Objects in Focus Series) - Softcover

Buch 4 von 23: Object in Focus

Parkinson, Richard

 
9780714150215: The Rosetta Stone: (Objects in Focus Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0714150215 ISBN 13: 9780714150215
Verlag: British Museum Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The Rosetta Stone contains a decree written three times in Greek, Demotic and hieroglyphic that provided the key to the mysterious hieroglyphic script of ancient Egypt, and opened up 3,000 years of the country's history and culture. This book tells the fascinating story of one of archaeology's icons, from its creation in the second century BC, to its discovery in 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, to the subsequent race to decipher its hieroglyphic text. Undertaken by two brilliant scholars - the Frenchman Jean-Francois Champollion, and the English physicist Thomas Young - it was the former who eventually succeeded in making the crucial breakthrough. Today the Rosetta Stone stands in the Museum as an enduring symbol of human understanding and communication through the ages.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Parkinson is an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum, specializing in Ancient Egyptian texts; in 1999 - 2000 he curated the exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of the Rosetta Stone's discovery, Cracking Codes. His publications include Voices from Ancient Egypt, the prize-winning The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940 - 1640 BC, Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt and Cracking Codes.

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Verlag
British Museum Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0714150215
ISBN 13 
9780714150215
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
64
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