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Cracking The Egyptian Code The Revolutionary Life Of Jeanfranois Champollion Andrew Robinson

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Cracking The Egyptian Code The Revolutionary Life Of Jeanfranois Champollion Andrew Robinson
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Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 58.37 MB
Pages: 272
Author: Andrew Robinson
ISBN: 9780500051719, 9780500771228, 0500051712, 0500771227
Language: English
Year: 2012

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Cracking The Egyptian Code The Revolutionary Life Of Jeanfranois Champollion Andrew Robinson by Andrew Robinson 9780500051719, 9780500771228, 0500051712, 0500771227 instant download after payment.

The Rosetta Stone, uncovered in 1799 by Napoleon's army, recorded its inscription in three scripts - ancient Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic. It 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, Jean-Francois Champollion successfully deciphered the hieroglyphs sparking a revolution in our knowledge of ancient Egypt. 'Cracking the Egyptian Code' is the first biography in English of Champollion, widely regarded as the founder of Egyptology. Andrew Robinson meticulously reconstructs how Champollion cracked the code of the hieroglyphic script, describing how Champollion started with Egyptian obelisks in Rome and papyri in European collections, sailed the Nile for a year, studied the tombs in the Valley of the Kings (a name he first coined), and carefully compared the three scripts on the Rosetta Stone to penetrate the mystery of the...

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