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

5.0

For someone obsessed with the story of Champollion as a child and who grew up to be a linguist and language learner/teacher, this book was pure joy. The story of how hieroglyphs were decoded could certainly be written in a short paper, but this is a far more delightful path, full of winding historical tangents, language factoids, and personality paintings. Gosh, I loved it.