The Rosetta Stone (Annotated)

The Rosetta Stone is a lucid antiquarian study of the monument that made possible the modern decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Budge explains the stone's discovery, its trilingual inscriptions—hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek—and the scholarly contest that culminated in the work of Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion. Written in a clear, expository style characteristic of early twentiet...