Egypt
- Book Review: Cracking The Egyptian Code
Wall Street Journal Cracking the Egyptian Code, By Andrew Robinson. Oxford. On Sept. 14, 1822, as legend tells the tale, Jean-François Champollion burst into his brother's Paris office at the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, flung...
- Book Review: Cracking The Egyptian Code
The Independent, UK (Review by Brian MOrton) Cracking The Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life Of Jean-François Champollion, By Andrew Robinson More of a summary of Champollion than a review of of the book. This is the first full biography of...
- Rosetta Stone Unlocks Egyptian History
Wired.com (Jason B. Jones) 1822: Jean-François Champollion shows a draft translation of the mysterious Rosetta stone and demonstrates to the world how to read the voluminous hieroglyphics left behind by the scribes of ancient Egypt. The story of the...
- More Than One Rosetta Stone?
Egypt Daily Star News (Ahmed Maged) An Egyptology researcher has called for the display of another original version of the Rosetta Stone at the entrance of the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, dismissing the official request by Egypt to repatriate the stone...
- Book Review: The Rosetta Stone And The Rebirth Of Ancient Egypt
Washington Post The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt by John Ray (Harvard) - reviewed by Jonathon Keats. This is actually less of a review than a short summary of the book's main focal points. It provides very little in the way of opinion...
Egypt
Review: The Last Man Who Knew Everything - Thomas Young
http://tinyurl.com/2tuv75 (calendarlive.com)
"Resistant to artificial barriers and educated in various countries, Young became one of the first truly international scientists, corresponding with experts from all over the world. . . . The best part of the book may be Robinson's detailed tour through the labyrinth of languages and historical misconceptions around that Holy Grail of archeology, the Rosetta Stone. Gradually, Young's insights (and occasional errors) accumulate as he compares the stone's three languages — Greek, Egyptian demotic and Egyptian hieroglyphic. The tragedy of his life may be that, for reasons that Robinson explores at length, the name in your mind's file about the Rosetta Stone is the mellifluous Jean-François Champollion, now considered the founder of Egyptology, instead of Thomas Young."
The Last Man Who Knew Everything - Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Surprising Feats
By Andrew Robinson
Thomas Young claimed to be the first to decipher the name Ptolemy in a cartouche on the Stone, amongst other words, and some of his findings were documented in a letter, which can be found here:
Thomas Young claimed to be the first to decipher the name Ptolemy in a cartouche on the Stone, amongst other words, and some of his findings were documented in a letter, which can be found here:
http://www.egyptologyonline.com/thomas_young
A biography of Thomas Young can be found at:
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1715.html
Plume: 304 pp., $15 paper
- Book Review: Cracking The Egyptian Code
Wall Street Journal Cracking the Egyptian Code, By Andrew Robinson. Oxford. On Sept. 14, 1822, as legend tells the tale, Jean-François Champollion burst into his brother's Paris office at the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, flung...
- Book Review: Cracking The Egyptian Code
The Independent, UK (Review by Brian MOrton) Cracking The Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life Of Jean-François Champollion, By Andrew Robinson More of a summary of Champollion than a review of of the book. This is the first full biography of...
- Rosetta Stone Unlocks Egyptian History
Wired.com (Jason B. Jones) 1822: Jean-François Champollion shows a draft translation of the mysterious Rosetta stone and demonstrates to the world how to read the voluminous hieroglyphics left behind by the scribes of ancient Egypt. The story of the...
- More Than One Rosetta Stone?
Egypt Daily Star News (Ahmed Maged) An Egyptology researcher has called for the display of another original version of the Rosetta Stone at the entrance of the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, dismissing the official request by Egypt to repatriate the stone...
- Book Review: The Rosetta Stone And The Rebirth Of Ancient Egypt
Washington Post The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt by John Ray (Harvard) - reviewed by Jonathon Keats. This is actually less of a review than a short summary of the book's main focal points. It provides very little in the way of opinion...