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The Riddle of the Rosetta - Jed Z. Buchwald - Bog

- How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

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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"--

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780691200903
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 576
  • Udgivet:
  • 15. september 2020
  • Størrelse:
  • 243x166x48 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 1120 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 7. december 2024
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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"--

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