Celebrating the bicentennial of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone with a book discussion of “Discovery at Rosetta”. Author Jonathan Downs takes us through the extraordinary adventure of Napoleon Bonaparte’s mission to conquer Egypt, and how his hand-picked academic specialists awakened the world to the lost civilisation of the pharaohs. From the invasion of Egypt and the stone’s unexpected discovery, through a tale of spies and lies, to final decipherment by Jean-François Champollion – this is the secret history of the Rosetta Stone: and the cracking of the hieroglyph code.
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