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2017__0198804423Oxford Univ Pr 2017. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 653 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. Oxford Univ Pr paperback
2008x-155849684XUniv of Massachusetts Pr 2008. Paperback. New. 272 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. Univ of Massachusetts Pr paperback
2024x-0231215533Columbia Univ Pr 2024. Paperback. New. 328 pages. 8.50x5.50x9.00 inches. Columbia Univ Pr paperback
2012SONG1452110921Chronicle Books 2012-07-25. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 9.75x0.75x11.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Chronicle Books hardcover
2007x-0231130074Columbia Univ Pr 2007. Paperback. New. 291 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. Columbia Univ Pr paperback
2010__0691145768Princeton Univ Pr 2010. Hardcover. New. 376 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
2015x-0465089968Basic Books 2015. Hardcover. New. 365 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.75 inches. Basic Books hardcover
2005320119New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 656 pages. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
2011AME_9780857247599Emerald Publishing Limited 2011. 1St. Hardcover. New/New. Emerald Publishing Limited hardcover
2002x-0471150681John Wiley & Sons Inc 2002. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 326 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.25 inches. John Wiley & Sons Inc hardcover
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20100691145768_newPrinceton University Press 2010-05-09. Hardcover. New. 9x6x2. Princeton University Press hardcover
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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
2011x-0520267699Univ of California Pr 2011. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 298 pages. 8.90x5.98x0.79 inches. Univ of California Pr paperback
2004AME_9780854046430StanleGibbonLimited 2004. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. StanleGibbonLimited hardcover
2021__3858818623Scheidegger Und Spiess Ag Verlag 2021. Hardcover. New. new edition. 240 pages. 11.00x9.25x1.02 inches. Scheidegger Und Spiess Ag Verlag hardcover
20051-1400042704Alfred a Knopf Inc 2005. Hardcover. New. later printing edition. 768 pages. 9.75x6.75x2.00 inches. Alfred a Knopf Inc hardcover
2013x-1137271418Palgrave Macmillan 2013. Hardcover. New. 192 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
2020__0691200904Princeton Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 561 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
200635795New York: Henry Holt and Co 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Very Good in wrappers. ARC Advanced Reader's Edition. ; 1.5 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches; 384 pages. Henry Holt and Co unknown
2025SKU1727701Marvel Universe 2025-08-05. hardcover. New. 7x0x11. New Book Ships with Tracking Marvel Universe hardcover
2025SKU1736291Marvel Universe 2025-08-05. hardcover. New. 7x0x11. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Marvel Universe hardcover
20141-159853310XLibrary of America 2014. Hardcover. New. 864 pages. 7.75x4.75x1.75 inches. Library of America hardcover
2014260205087Milan 2014. audioCD. Very Good. 5x5x0. Milan M2-36838; case shows only light shelf-wear; disc is mint/near mint; because we care that your order arrives in the condition stated we have additionally sealed the case in bubblewrap for added protection during shipment Milan unknown
