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In 1798, young French general Napoleon Bonaparte entered Egypt with
a veteran army and a specialist group of savants-scientists,
engineers, and artists-his aim being not just conquest, but the
rediscovery of the lost Nile kingdom. A year later, in the ruins of
an old fort in the small port of Rosetta, the savants made a
startling discovery: a large, flat stone, inscribed in Greek,
demotic Egyptian, and ancient hieroglyphics. This was the Rosetta
Stone, key to the two-thousand-year mystery of hieroglyphs, and to
Egypt itself. Two years later, French forces retreated before the
English and Ottoman armies, but would not give up the stone. Caught
between the opposing generals at the siege of Alexandria, British
special agents went in to find the Rosetta Stone, rescue the French
savants, and secure a fragile peace treaty. Discovery at Rosetta
uses French, Egyptian, and English eyewitness accounts to tell the
complete story of the discovery, decipherment, and capture of the
Rosetta Stone, investigating the rivalries and politics of the
time, and the fate of the stone today.
At the beginning of the 21st Century monsters still roam the
remote, and sometimes not so remote, corners of our planet. It is
our job to search for them. The Centre for Fortean Zoology CFZ] is
the only professional, scientific and full-time organisation in the
world dedicated to cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals.
Since 1992 the CFZ has carried out an unparalleled programme of
research and investigation all over the world. We have carried out
expeditions to Sumatra (2003 and 2004), Mongolia (2005), Puerto
Rico (1998 and 2004), Mexico (1998), Thailand (2000), Florida
(1998), Nevada (1999 and 2003), Texas (2003 and 2004), and Illinois
(2004). Since 1994 we have been publishing the world's only
dedicated cryptozoology magazine Animals & Men. This volume
contains fascimile reprints of the first five issues and includes
articles on Relict Pine Martens, Giant Sloths, Sumatran and Javan
Rhinos, Golden Frogs, Frog Falls, Mystery bears in Oxford and The
Atlas Mountains, Loch Ness reports, Green Lizards, Woodwose, The
Tatzelwurm, Giant Worm in Eastbourne, Lake Monsters of New Guinea,
Giant Lizards in Papua, Mystery Cats, Black Dogs on Dartmoor,
Scorpion Mystery, Manatees of St Helena, Migo: The Lake Monster of
New Britain, The search for the Tasmanian Thylacine, Mystery cats,
Loch Ness, More on the "Migo Video," Boars and Pumas, The Hairy
Hands of Dartmoor. PLUS: An introductory essay by Jonathan Downes,
notes putting each issue into a historical perspective, and a
history of the CFZ. This is a special collectors' edition.
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