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When a French Soldier's Shovel Unlocked Ancient Egypt
A mysterious slab of stone, three scripts, and one stubborn genius later, the world finally learned to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. In this episode, we follow the Rosetta Stone from its accidental discovery during Napoleon's campaign to the breakthrough moment when Jean-François Champollion cracked the code and brought an entire civilization's words back to life.
Sources 1. Adkins, Lesley and Roy Adkins. The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs. HarperCollins, 2000.
2. Parkinson, Richard. Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment. University of California Press, 1999.
3. Robinson, Andrew. Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion. Oxford University Press, 2012.
4. British Museum. "The Rosetta Stone." https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/objects-news/rosetta-stone
5. Ray, John. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. Harvard University Press, 2007. 6. Ceram, C.W. Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology. Second Edition, Knopf, 1967. 7. Gillispie, Charles Coulston and Michel Dewachter. The Monuments of Egypt: The Napoleonic Edition. Princeton Architectural Press, 1987.
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By The Ebbs of HistoryA mysterious slab of stone, three scripts, and one stubborn genius later, the world finally learned to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. In this episode, we follow the Rosetta Stone from its accidental discovery during Napoleon's campaign to the breakthrough moment when Jean-François Champollion cracked the code and brought an entire civilization's words back to life.
Sources 1. Adkins, Lesley and Roy Adkins. The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs. HarperCollins, 2000.
2. Parkinson, Richard. Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment. University of California Press, 1999.
3. Robinson, Andrew. Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion. Oxford University Press, 2012.
4. British Museum. "The Rosetta Stone." https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/objects-news/rosetta-stone
5. Ray, John. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. Harvard University Press, 2007. 6. Ceram, C.W. Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology. Second Edition, Knopf, 1967. 7. Gillispie, Charles Coulston and Michel Dewachter. The Monuments of Egypt: The Napoleonic Edition. Princeton Architectural Press, 1987.
Lost at Sea Shanty by legacyAlli Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/legacyalli/sound-phrases/rf-lost-at-sea-shanty/ License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/