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Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Keith Hockton, FRAS, is a writer, publisher, and award-winning podcaster based in Penang, Malaysia, with a deep passion for uncovering the stories that shaped our world. As the Southeast Asia Editor for International Living magazine, Keith explores the intersections of history, culture, and modern life across the region.
A dynamic lecturer and storyteller, he speaks internationally on Southeast Asian politics, economics, and history—bringing the past to life with clarity, wit, and insight. Keith is also a proud Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is on a mission to make history not only accessible but genuinely entertaining for everyone.
His published books include:
• Atlas of Australian Dive Sites - Travellers Edition (Harper Collins Australia, 2003).
• Penang - An inside guide to its historic homes, buildings, monuments and parks (MPH Publishing, 2012; 2nd Edition 2014; 3rd Edition 2017).
• Festivals of Malaysia (Trafalgar Publishing, 2015).
• The Habitat Penang Hill: A pocket history (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Alana and the Secret Life of Trees at Night (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Penang Then & Now: A Century of Change in Pictures (Entrepot Publishing, 2019; 2nd Edition 2021
• Bersama Lima - Five Together (Entrepot Publishing, 2022)
www.entrepotpublishing.com
Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Rosetta: Cipher of the Dead
In the scorched dust of a ruined Egyptian fort in 1799, French soldiers unearthed a slab of dark stone—black, cracked, and carved with strange scripts. They didn’t know it yet, but they had uncovered a ghost key. A relic that would awaken the long-dead language of a fallen empire.
The Rosetta Stone.
Etched in Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian hieroglyphs, the stone became the obsession of scholars and spies, empires and thieves. For centuries, the voices of the pharaohs had been silenced—locked behind symbols no one could understand. Now, with this single fragment, the race to resurrect them had begun.
But this was no simple discovery. It was born in war, stolen in conquest, and deciphered through decades of rivalry, sacrifice, and intellectual bloodsport. And behind it all lay something deeper—a civilization buried under centuries of sand and silence, finally whispering back.
Join us as we uncover the dark, thrilling tale of the Rosetta Stone—how a forgotten artifact tore open the crypt of ancient Egypt and brought the dead back to life.
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