DISCOVERY AT ROSETTA
Book ID/图书代码: 03275007B19020
English Summary/英文概要: In 1798, the young French general, Napoleon Bonaparte, entered Egypt with an army and a brigade of ’savants,’scientists, anthropologists and historians. His aim was not just conquest on the banks of the Nile but the rediscovery of the ancient world after years of obscurity under the Ottoman Empire.
At the heart of this quest was a stone that was discovered in the small town of Rossetta which would offer the key to unlock the mysteries of the ancient Egyptian. It contained wording in Greek, Hieroglyphs and demotic Egyptian. It was the prize that Napoleon had dreamed of, but in a series of adventures the stone came into English hands.
Discovery at Rosetta will be the first book that tells the full story of how the English won the battle to claim the Stone and how it was then shipped to England. The book also tells the story between Thomas Young and Champollion.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 絕大多數古文明的研究考證起源於這塊石頭
羅塞塔石碑,是一塊西元前196年刻有埃及國王托勒密五世 ( Ptolemy V ) 詔書的黑色玄武岩石碑。由於這塊石碑同時刻有一段三種不同語言版本的文字,第一是埃及象形文(神明的語言),第二是埃及俗體文(平民的語言),第三是希臘文(統治者的語言),使得近代考古學家可以對照各時期語言的內容,來解讀失傳埃及象形文的意義和結構。這塊石碑是一位通曉翻譯希臘文的法國將軍Pierre-François Xavier Bouchard在埃及港灣羅塞塔城市( Rosetta現今稱為el-Rashid ) 所發現,其內容是托勒密五世所頒布的一道敕令: 豁免人民的債務與稅務,賜奉金錢給神廟,釋放囚犯等。在英法戰爭之後,1802年保存在大英博物館展示。而法軍在投降之後,做了古文物的複製品和抄本,羅塞塔石碑便以複製品的身分存放於羅浮宮。
1798年,法國將軍拿破崙帶領一群包含了科學家、人類學家與歷史學家的軍隊,進入埃及。他不只為了佔領尼羅河,更是要挖掘出破解古埃及文明秘密關鍵的羅塞塔石碑。這塊石頭是拿破崙夢寐以求的寶物,但最後卻落入了英國人手中。
這是第一本完全以故事的方式來敘述英國人如何奪取羅塞塔石碑並將之運回英國的歷史故事,也告訴我們一段1821至1822年間,一位精通二十幾國語言的天才法國人Jean-Francois Champollion如何打敗他的競爭對手Thomas Young,成為第一位正確解讀古埃及象形文字的人,當時30出頭的Jean-Francois Champollion,現今被尊稱為古埃及學之父。
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About the Author/作者介绍: Jonathan Downs從事寫作和編輯,他的寫作靈感源自於法國失去羅塞塔之石的真實故事。
Jonathan Downs is a writer and editor. The original story comes from an article in History Today that first revealed the true story of how the French lost the stone.
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