The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt

Geisteswissenschaften / Archäologie / Rosetta Stone


Ray, John

Signatur: A009-B101-D001-A004
Buchart: Paperback
Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
Veröffentlichung: 2024
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 199
Format: kl. 8°
Größe (HxBXT): 17,8 x 11,0 cm x 1,3 cm
The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt
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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1. The Fading of the Light; 2. The Pot and the Kettle; 3. The Man of Science; 4. The Man of Art; 5. To Make Them Live Again; 6. The Return of the Light; 7. The Heirs of Jean-Francois; 8. The Words of Stone; 9. Whose Loot is is Anyway?

1. The text of the stone; 2. Further reading; 3. List of illustrations; 4. Acknowledgements; 5. Index

Kurzbeschreibung:
Publication about the Rosetta Stone

Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"Introduction. The Rosetta Stone is the famous object in the British Museum. According to the museum's own figures, it is the most visited item in the entire display, and perhaps the most lingered over, although a similar claim is sometimes made for the unwrapped mummy of a ginger timcat which also forms part of the Egyptian collections.