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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 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
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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Title: The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Payne ISBN: 0394846990 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 February, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Golden Goblet (Puffin Newbery Library) by Eloise Jarvis McGraw ISBN: 0140303359 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Pyramid by David Macaulay ISBN: 0395321212 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: 26 April, 1982 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Tales of Ancient Egypt (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green, Heather Copley ISBN: 0140367160 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Science in Ancient Egypt (Science of the Past) by Geraldine Woods ISBN: 0531159159 Publisher: Orchard Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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