[ProtectOurFreedom]

This is a review of "The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone," by Edward Dolnick.

This sounds like a fascinating book. I've not heard of author Dolnick, but reviewer Gordon highly recommends his other two books.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Ping!

[Scarlett156]

That book sounds like a blast! Thank you.

[algore]

I think there was a cuniform hieroglyph language pack for windows

[kiryandil]

Quite prolific, and an interesting biblio:

Books

• Madness on the Couch : Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis (1998)
• Down the Great Unknown : John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon (2001).
• The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (2005)
• The Forger’s Spell : A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (2008)
• The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World (2011).
• The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853 (2014)
• The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From (2017)
• The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone (2021)

[ifinnegan]

This excerpt is well written and interesting.

[FatherofFive]

The museum of Natural History is magnificent. I wonder what will happen to these treasures, and in the Louvre and d’Orsay, after the Muslims take over Europe

[GOPmember]

[Flick Lives]

Fascinating how some languages developed as phonetic and others as symbolic. It’s actually a complex abstraction to create a language based on sounds, with multiple symbols forming words vs assigning a single symbol as representing a word. It’s on the level of abstraction of zero in mathematics.

[PersonOfNo Consequence]

Carl Sagan mentioned Champollion and the deciphering of hieroglyphics in the original Cosmos series.

[Inyo-Mono]

I’ll have to check out that book too.

[M Kehoe]

I’ve been walking like an Egyptian for years.

Walk like an Egyptian.

Ear worm.

5.56mm

[scottiemom]

I loved this post! Looks like there is plenty of good reading on this site. As a former art history teacher I am especially pleased to know I can read and learn about an arts topic without the woke culture imposing it’s iron fist of ideology on it. Thanks for the enlightenment. The story of art IS the story of man.

[Pilsner]

[Rebelbase]

In all their success the French did not discover "A condo made of stona".