Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages-in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs.

Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British museum ever year, and yet most people don't really know what it is. The surprising and compelling story of two rival geniuses in an all-out race to decode one of the world's most famous documents-the Rosetta Stone-and their twenty-year-long battle to solve the mystery of ancient Egypt's hieroglyphs. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.ĭownload The Writing of the Gods Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history-books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. The Rosetta Stone is much more than a rock-it is the key to an ancient civilization and a modern symbol of human discovery, conquest, and scholarship. Discovery of Rosetta is the first book to tell the story of the Rosetta Stone-how it fell into British hands, the battle over who would be the first to successfully decipher it, and how it came to sit where it is today, in the British Museum. It was the Rosetta Stone, and it would change civilization forever.

In a crumbling castle on the banks of the Nile, the engineers found an unusual chunk of dark, chiseled debris. One fateful day in 1799, a unit of French army engineers made a discovery that opened the floodgates of history, rousing the gods of the Nile after two thousand years. The gripping tale of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the artifact that opened up ancient Egypt and triggered a struggle for cultural supremacy. Download Discovery at Rosetta Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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