History through every lens
Rosetta Stone
Discovery and Physical Characteristics
Christiane Zivie-Coche β Sphinx: History of a Monument (1997 EN; 1976 FR)
Christiane Zivie-Coche - Christiane Zivie-Coche β Sphinx: History of a Monument (1997 EN; 1976 FR)
Colin Reader β A Geomorphological Study of the Giza Necropolis (1997)
Colin Reader - Colin Reader β A Geomorphological Study of the Giza Necropolis (1997)
Mark Lehner β Archaeology of an Image: The Great Sphinx of Giza (1991)
Mark Lehner - Mark Lehner β Archaeology of an Image: The Great Sphinx of Giza (1991)
Richard Parkinson β Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment (1999)
Richard Parkinson - Richard Parkinson β Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment (1999)
Stephen Quirke β Going Out in Daylight (2014)
Stephen Quirke - Stephen Quirke β Going Out in Daylight (2014)
Thomas Young β Account of Some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature (1819)
Thomas Young - Thomas Young β Account of Some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature (1819)
Fall of Rome
Conventional date (476 CE) for the deposition of Romulus Augustulus by Odoacer, marking the traditional end of the Weste...
Battle of Actium
Decisive naval battle in 31 BCE in which Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, ending the Ptolemaic dynasty and b...
Champollion Decipherment
Jean-François Champollion announced the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs in his "Lettre à M. Dacier" in September 18...
Rosetta Stone Discovery
French soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone near the town of Rosetta (Rashid) in July 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian c...