The Rosetta Stone - Folio Society edition

The Rosetta Stone

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The Rosetta Stone - Folio Society edition
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The Rosetta Stone

Robert Sole; Dominique Valbelle & W

Edition year 2005
Binding parchment
Illustrator Neil Gower
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 274
Dimensions 24.9 × 18.3 cm

Edition details

The Rosetta Stone: The Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs by Robert Sole; Dominique Valbelle & W. V. Davies. Diagrams and 12 pages of colour illustrations by Neil Gower. Bound in cream vegetable parchment blocked with an wrap-around image of the Rosetta stone. Mid-brown slipcase. Mottled cream endpapers. 274pp. 24.9x18.3cm

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The Rosetta Stone tells the story of the famous ancient Egyptian inscription that provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. Because the same decree appeared in hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek scripts, scholars such as Jean-François Champollion were eventually able to unlock a writing system that had been unread for centuries. The stone transformed the modern study of ancient Egypt.

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