Elizabeth Frood

The tug of war over the Rosetta Stone

Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz describe the bitter feuds over its ownership and decipherment from the day it was discovered in 1799

Detail from the hieroglyphic portion of the Rosetta Stone. Credit: Alamy

  • The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

    Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz

    Princeton, pp. 575, £34

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