A review by gajeam
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick

4.0

A fun book with so, so many analogies. Just how many analogies? Imagine a middle school teacher giving a lesson on similes, metaphors, and analogies. Now imagine that teacher assigns his twenty-student class a five-page essay on the decryption of hieroglyphs that includes as many figures of speech as possible. The summation of all their essays would not even include half the analogies that Dolnick does in "The Writing of the Gods"