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The Riddle of the Rosetta

By Buchwald, Jed Z.

The Riddle of the Rosetta Social Sciences

The Riddle of the Rosetta

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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 has until now been understood as an instance of code-breaking, a kind of Bletchley Park avant la lettre. In The Riddle of the Rosetta, Buchwald and Josefowicz delve into a wide array of British and French sources as well as archival material to produce a comprehensive new history of the decipherment"--
Product details
Number of Pages:
576
Release Date:
2020-10-20
Publication Date:
2020-09-15
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691200904
ISBN13:
9780691200903
Weight:
1095 g
Height:
167 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
50 cm
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