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The riddle of the Rosetta : how an English polymath and a French polyglot discovered the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs
"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...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey
: Princeton University Press
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvz9394h |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
The riddle of the Rosetta |
| Author Notes: | Jed Z. Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies |
