Discovery at Rosetta
Subtitle: the ancient stone that unlocked the mysteries of Ancient Egypt
By: Jonathan Downs.
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781602392717
Subjects: Rosetta stone
Description: One fateful day in 1799, a unit of French army engineers made a discovery that opened the floodgates of history, rousing the gods of the Nile after two thousand years. In a crumbling castle on the banks of the Nile, the engineers found an unusual chunk of dark, chiseled debris. It was the Rosetta Stone, and it would change civilization forever. Tells the story of the Rosetta Stone, how it fell into British hands, the battle over who would be the first to successfully decipher it, and how it came to sit where it is today, in the British Museum. The Rosetta Stone is much more than a rock, it is the key to an ancient civilization and a modern symbol of human discovery, conquest, and scholarship.