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Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment

R. B. Parkinson, Whitfield Diffie, Mary Fischer, R. S. Simpson - History - 1999 - 232 pages
Napoleon's troops discovered a granitoid slab in the village of Rosetta in the western Delta in 1799. The Rosetta Stone was to become one of the most famous Egyptian ...
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Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment

R. B. Parkinson, Whitfield Diffie, Mary Fischer, R. S. Simpson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 232 pages
Deciphering the Rosetta Stone -- Reading a text: the Egyptian scripts of the Rosetta Stone -- Towards reading a cultural code: the uses of writing in ancient Egypt -- The ...
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Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings

R. B. Parkinson - History - 1991 - 168 pages
Voices from Ancient Egypt is an anthology presenting translations of sixty documents from a golden age of ancient Egyptian culture (c. 2081 - 1600 BC). The documents illustrate ...
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Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories

R. B. Parkinson - History - 2009 - 417 pages
In Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry, Richard Parkinson explores how ancient Egyptian poems have been read and perceived across the ages. Presents an innovative and theoretically ...
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Egyptian Art at Eton College: Selections from the Myers Museum

Stephen Spurr, Nicholas Reeves, Stephen Quirke - Art - 1999 - 74 pages
This beautiful book presents a selection of the finest and most historically important works in the Myers Museum at Eton College, which possesses one of the world's finest ...
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The Rosetta Stone

R. B. Parkinson - Egypt - 2005 - 68 pages
The Rosetta Stone is one of the most popular artefacts in the British Museum. Containing a decree written in Greek, Demotic and hieroglyphics, it proved to be the key to ...
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The UCL Lahun Papyri: Religious, Literary, Legal, Mathematical and Medical

Mark Collier, Stephen Quirke, Annette Imhausen - Egypt - 2004 - 194 pages
This volume presents transcriptions with transliterations and translations of five broad types of papyri discovered during Petrie's excavations of Lahun. Digital photographs of ...
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