The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone - Edward Dolnick
Category: History
Tags: History, Autobiography & Biographies, Adults
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Release date: October 19, 2021 Duration: 08:32:05, The surprising and compelling story of two rival geniuses in an all-out race to decode one of the worlds most famous documentsthe Rosetta Stoneand their twenty-year-long battle to solve the mystery of ancient Egypts hieroglyphs., The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British museum ever year, and yet most people dont 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 languagesin 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, ancien
