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2008AME_9781604562644Nova Science Publishers 2008. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. Nova Science Publishers hardcover
2008mon0000113528Nova Science Publishers Inc 2008-07-09. Hardcover. New. 2.5381 in x 25.8883 in x 18.2741 in. Nova Science Publishers Inc hardcover
20082-1604562641Nova Science Publishers Inc 2008. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 318 pages. 10.50x7.50x1.00 inches. Nova Science Publishers Inc hardcover
20100691145768_newPrinceton University Press 2010-05-09. Hardcover. New. 9x6x2. Princeton University Press hardcover
2010__0691145768Princeton Univ Pr 2010. Hardcover. New. 376 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
2016x-1137574852Palgrave Macmillan 2016. Hardcover. New. 8.50x6.00x0.75 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
2015x-3319163922Springer 2015. Hardcover. New. 2015 edition. 256 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.75 inches. Springer hardcover
2016x-3319386662Springer Verlag 2016. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 266 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.55 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
2020x-1108472621Cambridge University Press 2020. Hardcover. New. 214 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. Cambridge University Press hardcover
2023x-303131963XPalgrave Macmillan 2023. Hardcover. New. 176 pages. 8.25x6.00x0.75 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
2009x-1412810582Transaction Pub 2009. Paperback. New. 292 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.70 inches. Transaction Pub paperback
2009mon0004050595Routledge 2009-08-17. Paperback. Like New. 0.7000 8.9000 5.9000. Routledge paperback
2009DADAX1412810582Routledge 2009-08-15. 1. paperback. New. 6.00x0.61x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge paperback
2002Q-1931160112Green Candy Press 2002-10-18. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Green Candy Press paperback
2020009317Princeton University Press Princeton 2020 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; xi 561 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780691200903 9780691233963 0691200904 0691233969 ; OCLC 1110656207 ; dark grey cloth in dustjacket; dustjacket attached to endpapers ; Contents: A Quaker's Odyssey. Dinner at Longman's -- In the classroom of nature -- An errand in the city -- The vocal circle -- Lecturer and physician -- The Herculaneum papyri -- Antiquity Embraced. Words from Egypt's past -- The sounds of an ancient language -- Paris atmospheres -- Rooted in place -- Hier pour demain -- L'Affaire Polycarpe -- An Egyptian geography of Egypt -- Indications -- Scripts and Bones. Summer at Worthing -- Letters from Paris -- The papyri of the Description de l'Egypte -- Seeking uxellodunum -- The master of conditions -- Abandoning the alphabet at Grenoble --Demonstrations -- Iconoclasm at the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres -- Reading the Past. The obelisk from Philae -- A singular and puzzling artifact -- A momentous change -- Words and sounds -- Parisian reactions -- Words across the Channel -- Antique Letters. Grey's box -- An opportune encounter -- The "true key" to Egyptian hieroglyphs -- The semantic trap avoided -- The reception of the Precis -- "Hold your laughter friends!" ; "In 1799 a French officer was clearing debris from a military installation when he discovered a stele bearing three scripts: ancient Greek hieroglyphic and a third that could not be definitively identified. This artifact which came to be known as the Rosetta Stone has traditionally played the starring role in the history of decipherment which has until now been understood as an instance of code-breaking a kind of Bletchley Park avant la lettre. In The Riddle of the Rosetta Buchwald and Josefowicz delve into a wide array of British and French sources as well as archival material to produce a comprehensive new history of the decipherment. More than a puzzle-solving exercise based on a single artifact the decipherment engaged with the era's social cultural and intellectual contexts. It grew in the midst of heated disputes about language historical evidence the status of the Bible the nature of polytheism and the importance of classical learning. Jean-Francois Champollion in France and his British rival the medical doctor and polymath Thomas Young approached the decipherment from different standpoints derived from their contrasting temperaments educational experiences and attitudes to antiquity. Imbued with reverence for Greek culture and raised a Quaker Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing principally as a way to uncover new knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. To him the decipherment was akin to a challenge posed by a problem in mathematics or science. Champollion's altogether different motivations and attitude unfolded amidst the political chaos of Restoration France in fierce response to the intrigues of opposing scholars aligned with throne and altar. Unlike Young Champollion admired ancient Egypt and this sympathy coupled with his willingness to upend conventional wisdom about the enigmatic Egyptian signs freed him to travel a path down which Young refused to go. A remarkable intellectual adventure reaching from the filthy back streets of Georgian London to the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France from the forgotten byways of provincial France to the splendor of the Valley of the Kings this book reveals the decipherment in its full historical complexity" ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020 hardcover
2020x-0691200904Princeton Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 561 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
2020__0691200904Princeton Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 561 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
2020FLAHIVE-2942Princeton University Press Princeton 2020 First printing with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very light bowing to boards of an otherwise beautiful copy. F2942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Princeton University Press, Princeton hardcover
2025x-1041009402Routledge 2025. Hardcover. New. 232 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. Routledge hardcover
2025G1041009402I4N00Routledge 2025. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Routledge hardcover
2021DADAX1640701168Our Daily Bread 2021-10-05. paperback. New. 6.00x0.25x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Our Daily Bread paperback
2022__0228011108McGill Queens Univ 2022. Hardcover. New. 336 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. McGill Queens Univ hardcover
2022x-3030910199Springer 2022. Paperback. New. 362 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.91 inches. Springer paperback
2011DADAX0199836809Oxford University Press 2011-10-01. 1. paperback. New. 1.50x6.70x9.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Oxford University Press paperback
2008171826Oxford University Press 2008-09-22. Hardcover. Good condition/Good condition. 9x7x1. some highlights/writingfast ship Oxford University Press hardcover
