TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buchwald,Jed Z.
AU  - Josefowicz,Diane Greco
TI  - The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs 
SN  - 9780691200910
AV  - PJ1531.R5 B77 2020
U1  - 493/.1 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Egyptian language
KW  - Writing, Hieroglyphic
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Andrew Robinson
KW  - Cracking the Egyptian Code
KW  - Demotic script
KW  - Egyptian archaeology
KW  - Egyptology
KW  - Fort Julien
KW  - Herculaneum Papyri
KW  - Howard Carter
KW  - Institut d’Égypte
KW  - International Congress of Orientalists
KW  - Jacques-François Menou
KW  - Karnak
KW  - King Ptolemy
KW  - King Tut’s tomb
KW  - Lesley Adkins
KW  - Memphis
KW  - Pierre-François Bouchard
KW  - Ptolemaic dynasty
KW  - Ptolemy V Epiphanes
KW  - Roy Adkins
KW  - The Keys to Egypt
KW  - Thomas Norton Longman
KW  - ancient Greek
KW  - ancient civilizations
KW  - antiquarianism
KW  - archaeology
KW  - linguistics
KW  - paleography
KW  - philology
KW  - semantics
KW  - stele
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Introduction --; PART 1. A QUAKER’S ODYSSEY --; PART 2. ANTIQUITY EMBRACED --; PART 3. SCRIPTS AND BONES --; PART 4. READING THE PAST --; PART 5. ANTIQUE LETTERS --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Name Index --; Subject Index; restricted access
N2  - The legendary rivalry behind the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphsIn 1799, a French officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology—that of the Rosetta stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on fresh archival evidence to provide a major new account of how the English polymath Thomas Young and the French philologist Jean-François Champollion vied to be the first to solve the riddle of the Rosetta.Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz bring to life a bygone age of intellectual adventure. Much more than a decoding exercise centered on a single artifact, the race to decipher the Rosetta stone reflected broader disputes about language, historical evidence, biblical truth, and the value of classical learning. Buchwald and Josefowicz paint compelling portraits of Young and Champollion, two gifted intellects with altogether different motivations. Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing as a means to greater knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. Champollion, swept up in the political chaos of Restoration France and fiercely opposed to the scholars aligned with throne and altar, admired ancient Egypt and was prepared to upend conventional wisdom to solve the mystery of the hieroglyphs.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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691200910?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691200910
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691200910/original
ER  -