The Mystery of the Hieroglyphs
by Carol Donoughue Author
An interesting, conversational story of the Rosetta Stone and the race to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0-19-521554-0
- Print Status
- In Print
- Sections
- 8
- Pages
- 48
- Suggested Grades
- 3rd - 6th
- Geographical Setting
- Egypt, France, England
- Historical Setting
- 2500 BC - 1832 AD
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright
- 1999
Sections
- 1 How the Egyptians wrote
- 2 How we know
- 3 The discovery of the Rosetta Stone
- 4 Thomas Young
- 5 Jean Francois Champollion
- 6 Success at last
- 7 Champollion goes to Egypt
- 8 Reading hieroglyphs
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