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John Sturrock: The Rosetta Stone, 19 September 2002
Keys of Egypt
by Lesley Atkins and Roy Atkins.
HarperCollins, 335 pp., £7.99, September 2001,0 00 653145 8 Show More
by Lesley Atkins and Roy Atkins.
HarperCollins, 335 pp., £7.99, September 2001,
The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics
by Robert Solé and Dominique Valbelle, translated by Steven Rendall.
Profile, 184 pp., £7.99, August 2002,1 86197 344 6 Show More
by Robert Solé and Dominique Valbelle, translated by Steven Rendall.
Profile, 184 pp., £7.99, August 2002,
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts
by Andrew Robinson.
McGraw Hill, 352 pp., £25.99, June 2002,0 07 135743 2 Show More
by Andrew Robinson.
McGraw Hill, 352 pp., £25.99, June 2002,
The Man who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
by Andrew Robinson.
Thames and Hudson, 168 pp., £12.95, April 2002,0 500 51077 6 Show More
by Andrew Robinson.
Thames and Hudson, 168 pp., £12.95, April 2002,
“... In the shopping precinct that now clings to the skirts of the old Reading Room, a table is laid with portable derivatives of the Rosetta Stone. The number of them hints at a BM merchandising frenzy: for sale, and I may have miscounted, are a mug, a mouse-mat, a ceramic tile, a tie, a teacloth, a scarf, a T-shirt and two sizes of replica, all of them stamped with a presumably random excerpt from the Stone’s inscriptions ... ”
