The Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone

“[A] page turner . . . entertaining history that’s told with gusto and goes down like a pleasant aperitif.”
–The Washington Post Book World

“COMPELLING . . . A PASSIONATE LINGUISTIC LOVE AFFAIR.”
–Time

“[Meyerson] has inhaled his rich material. It is as if his normal respiration were in cursive, demotic, or hieratic scripts, and acrophonic principles–as if he had always been able to read obelisks and coffins.”
–Harper’s

“This florid adventure tale, presented in colorful episodes that read as if d...