The hieroglyphs script was only deciphered in 1822 by Jean Francois Champollion. That is 23 years of hard work after the Rosetta Stone was found…
View More Wonderful – The Code-breaker’s Secret Diaries: Rediscovering Ancient Egypt
Day: October 26, 2019
Average – Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary
This book published in 2007 is the most recent English language biography on Zhou En Lai after Eldest Son by Han Su Yin published in…
View More Average – Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary
Excellent – On China
This book is not a narrative history of China. Readers looking for a primer on Chinese history will not find it here. Instead what we…
View More Excellent – On China
Revisits Africa – The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
Any new book by VS Naipaul is an event to look forward to. VS Naipaul’s latest book The Masque of Africa is his observations of…
View More Revisits Africa – The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief