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The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Egypt

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Title: The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Egypt
by James Cross Giblin, Patricia Tobin
ISBN: 0-06-446137-8
Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12)
Pub. Date: February, 1993
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $7.99
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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: An ideal introduction to how heiroglyphics were decoded.
Comment: "The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone" is accessible to our 9-year-old would-be Egyptologist with just a bit of vocabulary help from adults, yet is not the least insulting to her parents. This small book, with fewer than 100 pages, largeish type, and many clear illustrations, gives a readable and straightforward account of how the Rosetta stone allowed scholars to understand and even find the pronunciation of a language long after its last speaker was long dead. We learn, for example, that to the ancients, she was "Cleopadra" and not "Cleopatra".

There is enough detail to help understand the process, and to convince the reader that the reconstructions are sound. The stone and its translation is put into its historical context, both ancient and modern.

This is an admirable, brief, and inexpensive introduction to the subject, and is well-written. The professional will look elsewhere, and the complete greek, demotic, and heiroglyphic texts are available in the inexpensive Dover reprint of E.A. Wallis Budge's "The Rosetta Stone", which I review separately.

Rating: 3
Summary: This is a young persons book, written with not much detail
Comment: A nice little book, easy to read and worth the price paid for it. I would have liked to see more detail, perhaps in the next book I buy. I gave it three stars as it is a light report of the Rosetta Stone. I read the whole book in about 1/2 hour. It does have other sources from which to select more detailed books.

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