The Linguist And The Emperor
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Author | : Daniel Meyerson |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2005-02-08 |
Genre | : Egyptian language |
ISBN | : 0345448723 |
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Recounts the story of the race between Napoleon and linguist Jean-Francois Champollion to break the code of the Rosetta Stone, from its discovery and the early efforts to secure it, to the impact the stone had on the lives of everyone who encountered it.
Author | : Edward Dolnick |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501198939 |
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The surprising and compelling story of two rival geniuses in an all-out race to decode one of the world's most famous documents--the Rosetta Stone--and their twenty-year-long battle to solve the mystery of ancient Egypt's hieroglyphs. The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British museum ever 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. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages--in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs. Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt. Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest empire the world had ever known, yet everything about it--the pyramids, mummies, the Sphinx--was shrouded in mystery. Whoever was able to decipher the Rosetta Stone, and learn how to read hieroglyphs, would solve that mystery and fling open a door that had been locked for two thousand years. Two brilliant rivals set out to win that prize. One was English, the other French, at a time when England and France were enemies and the world's two great superpowers. The Writing of the Gods chronicles this high-stakes intellectual race in which the winner would win glory for both himself and his nation. A riveting portrait of empires both ancient and modern, this is an unparalleled look at the culture and history of ancient Egypt and a fascinating, fast-paced story of human folly and discovery unlike any other.
Author | : Michael Smith |
Publisher | : Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781559705684 |
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Describes the work and personalities of the codebreakers who deciphered Japanese codes despite vast linguistic differences between English and Japanese, and explains their contributions to Allied success during World War II.
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Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2005-03 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
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Author | : Edward Henry Nolan |
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Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 1861 |
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Download The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East, from the Earliest Times to the Suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : George Leonard Staunton |
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Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1797 |
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Download AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT FROM THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN TO THE EMPEROR OF CHINA Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Raymond G. Woolfe |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2016-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442245352 |
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This is the story of the last mounted American troops to see action in battle, when, in late 1941, six-hundred men and their horses held off the Japanese invasion of Luzon in the Philippines just long enough to allow General Douglas MacArthur's forces to withdraw to Bataan. The 26th continued to fight on horseback until late February 1942 when, tragically, they were ordered dismounted and their horses and mules transferred to the Quartermaster's center and slaughtered for food for the defenders. It is on record that the 26th troopers refused to accept meat rations from their animals, regardless of their own starvation. This stirring account of a little-known aspect of the Philippine campaign is military history at its best.
Author | : John Phipps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1823 |
Genre | : Bengal (India) |
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Author | : Michael I. Hartman |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2010-05-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0557458986 |
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ORIGINS, is a science fiction story spanning several hundred thousand's of years of human history.The story details the journey of Commander Damuzi and his family as he leads the First Fleet to safety and a new start. When their civilization is threatened with extinction by all the suns in their galaxy going super nova.The First Fleet travels across the galaxy searching for a new home where a scouting mission had briefly reported before disappearing a millennia before.Who will be lost along the way? Will they reach Keringer? What hardships and challenges await them? Will they run into anyone on the way? Are they alone out there? Will there ancient Enemy wipe them out before they can escape all the destruction?The story captures the drama and excitement of clashing cultures and of Commander Dumazi's adventure to save the Human Race.
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Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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