The Mystery of the Hieroglyphs: The Story of the Rosetta Stone and the Race to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs
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For more than 15 centuries, no one could read the strange-looking Egyptian hieroglyphs. And then in 1799 a French soldier in Napoleon's army in Egypt stumbled across the Rosetta Stone, an ancient inscription recorded in Greek, hieroglyphs, and demotic script. Many of the brightest scholars of the time--Egyptologists, historians, and linguists--as well as detectives, professional code breakers, and... More
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Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
Binding | Paperback (8 editions) |
Reading Level | Ages 4-8 |
# of Pages | 48 |
ISBN-10 | 0195218507 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0195218503 |
Publication Date | 02/14/2002 |
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