The Writing of the Gods [SCM]
by Edward Dolnick Author
The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British museum every year, and yet most people don’t really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries
Additional Details
- ISBN
- 1501198947
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 32
- Pages
- 336
- Suggested Grades
- 9th - 12th
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Copyright
- Oct 25, 2022
Chapters
- 1 The Stakes
- 2 The Find
- 3 The Challenge
- 4 Voices from the Dust
- 5 So Near and Yet So Far
- 6 The Conquering Hero
- 7 The Burning Deck
- 8 Monsieur Smith Makes His Exit
- 9 A Celebrity in Stone
- 10 First Guesses
- 11 The Rivals
- 12 Thomas Young is Almost Surprised
- 13 Archimedes in His Bathtub, Thomas Young in His Country House
- 14 Ahead of the Field
- 15 Lost in the Labyrinth
- 16 Ancient Wisdom
- 17 "A Cipher and a Secret Writing"
- 18 The Exile
- 19 Here Comes Champollion
- 20 "A Veritable Chaos"
- 21 The Birth of Writing
- 22 The Paduan Giant
- 23 Abu Simbel
- 24 Eureka!
- 25 The Unveiling
- 26 A Duck May be Somebody's Mother
- 27 Straining to Hear
- 28 Strength in Numbers
- 29 A Pair of Walking Legs
- 30 Clean Robes and Soft Hands
- 31 Out of a Job
- 32 The Lost Pharaoh
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