Discovery at Rosetta
the ancient stone that unlocked the mysteries of Ancient Egypt
by Jonathan Downs
One fateful day in 1799, a unit of French army engineers made a discovery that opened the floodgates of history, rousing the gods of the Nile after two thousand years. In a crumbling castle on the banks of the Nile, the engineers found an unusual chunk of dark, chiseled debris. It was the Rosetta Stone, and it would change civilization forever. Tells the story of the Rosetta Stone, how it fell into British hands, the battle over who would be the first to successfully decipher it, and how it came to sit where it is today, in the British Museum. The Rosetta Stone is much more than a rock, it is the key to an ancient civilization and a modern symbol of human discovery, conquest, and scholarship.
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Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt
2020, American University in Cairo Press
in English
9774169263 9789774169267
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Discovery at Rosetta: the ancient stone that unlocked the mysteries of Ancient Egypt
2008, Skyhorse Pub.
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In 1798, the young French general, Napoleon Bonaparte, entered Egypt with an army and a brigade of 'savants', scientists, anthropologists and historians. His aim was not just conquest on the banks of the Nile but the rediscovery of the ancient world after years of obscurity under the Ottoman Empire. At the heart of this quest was a stone that was discovered in the small town of Rossetta which would offer the key to unlock the mysteries of the ancient Egyptian. It contained wording in Greek, hieroglyphs and demotic Egyptian. It was the prize that Napoleon had dreamed of, but in a series of adventures the stone came into English hands. Discovery at Rosetta will be the first book that tells the full story of how the English won the battle to claim the Stone and how it was then shipped to England. The book also tells the story of the extraordinary characters involved leading up to the race between Thomas Young and Champollion to decipher the Stone's code.
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