The discovery of the Rosetta Stone, for example, which featured the same text written in three different languages, allowed archaeologists to recover the lost language of the Egyptians and decipher the surviving written records of their history. A set of fragile sketchbooks residing in the Bishop Museum has become something of a Rosetta Stone for … Continue reading Kirstin Downey: How An 18th-Century Teenager’s Sketches Preserved Hawaiian History
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Kirstin Downey: How An 18th-Century Teenager’s Sketches Preserved Hawaiian History
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone, for example, which featured the same text written in three different languages, allowed archaeologists to recover the lost language of the Egyptians and decipher the surviving written records of their history. A set of fragile sketchbooks residing in the Bishop Museum has become something of a Rosetta Stone for … Continue reading Kirstin Downey: How An 18th-Century Teenager’s Sketches Preserved Hawaiian History