by Carol Andrews · BRITISH MUSEUM · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780714109312
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«The Rosetta Stone» is the historical essay by Carol Andrews, published by British Museum Press in paperback (32 pages, in English).
«The Rosetta Stone» explains what the Rosetta Stone is: a stele from the Ptolemaic era created in 196 BC with the same text in three scripts —hieroglyphic, demotic and classical Greek—. Carol Andrews narrates the discovery of the stone in 1799 by the French near Rosetta and the process that allowed Egyptian hieroglyphs to be deciphered.
The work was originally published in 1981 and this paperback edition dates from 2005. The associated categories are history, archaeology and historical linguistics.
«The Rosetta Stone» is aimed at enthusiasts of Egyptology and archaeology interested in the decipherment of hieroglyphs.
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