1899
First Published
3.83
Average Rating
256
Number of Pages
Budge gives the history of hieroglyphic writing, its evolution into hieratic and demotic scripts, and the fascinating tale of its decipherment by Young, Champollion, Åkerblad, and others.
Avg Rating
3.83
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252
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Author
E.A. Wallis Budge
Author · 50 books
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.
