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Free Download Dominique Valbelle, "The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 1568582269 | PDF | pages: 214 | 46.9 mb
In July 1799, a French officer serving in Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition unearthed a granite block bearing text in three different scripts €" Greek, demotic Egyptian, and hieroglyphics. Following the discovery, a remarkable competition ensued for possession of the stone as well as for decoding its inscription. Using all the elements of a detective thriller, the authors, a well-known novelist and a leading Egyptologist, tell the story of international intrigue surrounding the intellectual quest to crack the stone’s code €" the key to reading ancient Egyptian texts for the first time in 14 centuries. Also included are reproductions of the stone and its inscriptions as well as portraits of the key figures involved in its translation.

Free Download Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 184529579X, 9774169263 | EPUB | pages: 262 | 3.4 mb
In 1798, the young French general, Napoleon Bonaparte, entered Egypt with an army and a brigade of ‘savants’, scientists, anthropologists and historians. His aim was not just conquest on the banks of the Nile but the rediscovery of the ancient world after years of obscurity under the Ottoman Empire. At the heart of this quest was a stone that was discovered in the small town of Rossetta which would offer the key to unlock the mysteries of the ancient Egyptian. It contained wording in Greek, Hieroglyphs and demotic Egyptian. It was the prize that Napoleon had dreamed of, but in a series of adventures the stone came into English hands. Discovery at Rosetta will be the first book that tells the full story of how the English won the battle to claim the Stone and how it was then shipped to England. The book also tells the story of the extraordinary characters involved leading up to the race to decipher the Stone’s code between Thomas Young and Champollion.

Free Download Rosetta: A Scandalous True Story by Alexandra Joel
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0143780468 | 328 Pages | EPUB | 2.3 MB
Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls.