The Alexandria Semaphore

Literature & Fiction

Robert Solé

Literary

The Harvill Press

<p>In July 1799 a French officer serving in Bonaparte's army in Egypt made an interesting discovery. A granite slab unearthed near the small town of Rosetta bore texts in three different scripts - Greek, demotic Egyptian and hieroglyphs. For the first time there was a real hope of decoding Egyptian writing. The Stone was soon stolen from the French by the British Army and removed to the British Museum in London. Now began a remarkable and highly competitive intellectual adventure in which some of the best minds of the time took part. Thomas Young, a remarkable English polymath and physician, and Johann David Akerblad, a Swedish diplomat, made valiant progress towards a solution, but the code was finally cracked by the tireless French orientalist Jean-Fran?ois Champollion. The texts of Ancient Egypt could now be read again after fourteen centuries.</p>

The Rosetta Stone : The Story of the Decoding of Egyptian Hieroglyphics

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Profile Books

Fous d'Egypte : Entretiens avec Florence Quentin

L'Egypte d'hier en couleurs

Éditions du Chêne

Ils ont fait l'Egypte moderne - woujouh misr al haditha - (Arabe)

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