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The Rosetta Stone

E.A. Wallis Budge

The Rosetta Stone

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Budge explains the famous trilingual inscription that made the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs possible and transformed the study of ancient Egypt. The book is historically important for its account of one of archaeology’s most consequential discoveries, and readers will find background on the stone, its inscriptions, and the scholarly breakthrough it enabled.

About E.A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge (1857–1934) was a British Egyptologist, museum curator, and prolific translator whose editions of Egyptian funerary and religious texts became foundational in the study of ancient religion and occult reception. His publications helped popularize ancient Egyptian spirituality in both scholarly and esoteric circles.

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