Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz

The Riddle of the Rosetta

How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking readers from the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France to the windswept monuments of the Valley of the Kings, The Riddle of the Rosetta reveals the untold story behind one of the nineteenth century's most thrilling discoveries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 924g
• ISBN-13: 9780691233963
• ISBN-10: 0691233969
• Artikelnr.: 62851599

Autorenporträt

Jed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. He lives in Altadena, California. Diane Greco Josefowicz is a writer, editor, and activist. She has served for more than a decade as science and technology editor for the Victorian Web (victorianweb.org). She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Buchwald and Josefowicz are the authors of The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science (Princeton).