Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion

by Andrew Robinson

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In 1799 Napoleon's army uncovered an ancient stele in the Nile delta. Its inscription, recorded in three distinct scripts--ancient Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic--would provide scholars with the first clues to unlocking the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs, a language lost for nearly two millennia. More than twenty years later a remarkably gifted Frenchman named Jean-Francois Champollion successfully deciphered the hieroglyphs on the stele, now commonly...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199914990

ISBN13:9780199914999

Release Date:June 2012

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:2.04 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"

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