Cracking the code : the Rosetta Stone and decipherment / Richard Parkinson ; with contributions by W. Diffie, M. Fischer and R.S. Simpson
Language: English
Published by London: British Museum Press, 1999
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Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 208p.: ill. (some col),facsims,ports.; 28cm. Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition, held at the British Museum, London, July 1999 to January 2000.Bibliography: p202. Subjects: Rosetta Stone.Egyptian language Writing.Inscriptions, Ancient Egypt.Afroasiatic languages.Inscriptions, Ancient Greek language, Biblical. Egypt Civilization. Egypt Antiquities. Hieroglyphic. Demotic. Ancient Greek. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg.
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- Title
- Cracking the code : the Rosetta Stone and decipherment / Richard Parkinson ; with contributions by W. Diffie, M. Fischer and R.S. Simpson
- Author
- Parkinson, Richard B
- Publisher
- London: British Museum Press
- Publication year
- 1999
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0714119164
- ISBN 13
- 9780714119168
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
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Cracking Codes, by Richard Parkinson, the British Museum's assistant keeper of Egyptian antiquities, is a companion volume for the museum's bicentennial exhibition of what has come to be known as the Rosetta stone. With 32 color and 200 black-and-white illustrations ranging from limestone fragments to whole statues, illustrated papyrus, and evocative wall paintings, Parkinson shows how Champollion's piercing of the mists of time has enabled the ancient Egyptians to speak to modern civilizations. Parkinson's essays on the importance of writing to human civilization and the birth of Egyptology are equally insightful. "The decipherment of the Egyptian scripts is not a single event that occurred in 1822," he writes, but "a continuous process that is repeated at every reading of a text or artifact. Like any process of reading, it is a dialogue." --Eugene Holley Jr.
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