The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics - Tapa dura

Valbelle, Dominique; Sole, Robert

 
9781861972323: The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics

Sinopsis

The fascinating story of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleon's army and of the decoding of Egyptian hieroglyphics, to which it offered the key. The Stone was stolen from the French by the British Army and removed to the British Museum in London, where experts tried to crack the code.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca de los autores

Dominique Valbelle is Director of the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Lille III and President of the French Egyptological Society.

Robert Sole, whose origins are Egyptian, is a novelist (published here by Harvill) and journalist.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título