I love the story about how the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. It is such an inspiring story about how difficult scholarship can be but how rewarding. We would know almost nothing about Egyptian history if the language had not been translated centuries after it was written.
Includes details of which I was unaware. Thank you.
I love the story about how the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. It is such an inspiring story about how difficult scholarship can be but how rewarding. We would know almost nothing about Egyptian history if the language had not been translated centuries after it was written.
I didn't realize it was such a competition!
Kathleen,
I don't have your email so I'm posting the link below in case you never saw it. it's from the Browser, which you may already subscribe to.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/24/ode-to-the-library-museum/
That is a beautiful meditation on the Beatty library. I will do a substack on the library soon. Thank you for this.