the story of the Rosetta Stone and the race to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs
Donoughue, Carol
1999
Tells the story of the Rosetta Stone, a stone found in Egypt in 1799 that proved to be the key to understanding the hieroglyphic script of the Ancient Egyptians.
A biography of the Cherokee Indian who invented a system of writing for his people in the early nineteenth century and after whom the giant sequoia trees and Sequoia National Park were named.
