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Cracking codes : the Rosetta Stone and decipherment

by Richard Parkinson, Whitfield Diffie, M. Fischer, R. S. Simpson

Published for a 1999 British Museum exhibition marking the bicentenary of the Rosetta Stone's discovery, this volume features an exhibit catalogue and explores ancient Egyptian writing, scribal culture, and the wider history of deciphering ancient scripts.

Accession 20798 ISBN 0520222482 Publisher University of California Press
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