Rosetta Stone.

[Vimto]

Can anyone please recommend a popular authentic history describing the discovery of the translation and meaning of the Rosetta stone. I wish to give it to my daughter who is an intelligent sixteen year old who has shown an interest in the story but tells me the accounts she has read are either too simplistic or too deeply detailed and overly scholarly.

[Mosaic]

Difficult one to answer Vimto: there are plenty of Egyptology books that describe the discovery as a chapter or part of a chapter, but I don't know one I'd recommend that's just about this one discovery.
Maybe putting the enquiry into the wider context of the search to decipher hieroglyphic might return more options on a search - I just put that phrase into google / books and got a whole lot of sensible-looking book options. And there's always the side benefit of deciding to learn hiergogluphic oneself....

[Peter Pedant]

Hmm I wouldnt learn Hieroglyphic and I've worked there ! ( no not Rosetta but further south )

E wallis budge is the usual one ( but honestly at 16 she has better things to do )

Basically you want a book that details both Champollion and Young's contributions.

Here is an article to be getting on with -
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_97-01/993_champollion.html

[Peter Pedant]

There is this on amazon at 1p

Cracking Codes: Rosetta Stone and the Art of Decipherment Paperback – 2 Aug 1999

[Peter Pedant]

Keys of Egypt Lesley and ROy Atkins

and cracking the Egyptian code andrew marshall

I mean blimey you can buy all three ( 2nd hand) for 3p !