The fast-paced and "engrossing account" (The New York Times Book Review) of "one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history" (The Christian Science Monitor): two rival geniuses in a race to decode the writing on one of the world's most famous documents--the Rosetta Stone.
The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British museum every year, and yet most people don't really know what it is. 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. 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.
Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read
the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt.
Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest
empire the world had ever known, yet everything about it--the pyramids,
mummies, the Sphinx--was shrouded in mystery. Whoever was able to decipher the
Rosetta Stone would solve that mystery and fling open a door that had been
locked for two thousand years.
Two brilliant rivals set out to win that prize. One was
English, the other French, at a time when England and France were enemies and
the world's two great superpowers. Written "like a thriller" (Star
Tribune, Minneapolis), The Writing of the Gods chronicles this high-stakes
intellectual race in which the winner would win glory for both himself and his
nation.
A riveting portrait
of empires both ancient and modern, this is an unparalleled look at the culture
and history of ancient Egypt, "and also a lesson...in what the human mind
does when faced with a puzzle" (The New Yorker).
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