by Robert Solé · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020371308
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«La pierre de Rosette» is the historical essay by Robert Solé and Dominique Valbelle, published by Seuil in paperback (229 pages, in French).
The book reconstructs the history of the Rosetta Stone, the inscribed fragment whose discovery made it possible to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs. The authors explain the context of the discovery, the importance of the document and the keys to its study, connecting the piece with Egyptology and the archaeology of ancient Egypt.
Includes bibliographic references and index. Originally published in Paris in 1999. The work falls within the history of Egypt and Egyptology.
For readers interested in Egyptology, archaeology and ancient history, as well as in the decipherment of scripts.
Robert Solé is a French journalist and novelist of Syrian origin. Born in Cairo in 1946, Solé moved to France at the age of 18. He has served as ombudsman of the Parisian newspaper Le Monde. His works of fiction include Le Tarbouche and La Mamelouka. Solé studied at the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille in Lille.
