{"id":556342,"date":"2021-10-20T04:09:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T04:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/10\/20\/who-decoded-the-rosetta-stone\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T04:09:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T04:09:27","slug":"who-decoded-the-rosetta-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/10\/20\/who-decoded-the-rosetta-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Who decoded the Rosetta stone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The only story in the foreign press is Egyptology:<\/strong> The NYT is running a compelling review of science writer Edward Dolnick\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Writing-Gods-Decode-Rosetta-Stone\/dp\/1501198939\">The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone<\/a>, which details the 20-year competition between British polymath Thomas Young and French scholar, philologist and orientalist Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Champollion. 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