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Cracking the Egyptian code: the revolutionary life of Jean-François Champollion
Cracking the Egyptian code: the revolutionary life of Jean-François Champollion
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Robinson, Andrew
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
c2012
Language
English
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Prologue: Egyptomania
Hieroglyphic "delirium" before Champollion
A revolutionary childhood
Reluctant schoolboy
Egypt encountered
Paris and the Rosetta stone
Teenage professor
The race begins
Napoleon and Champollion
Exile and revolt
Breakthrough
An Egyptian renaissance
Curator at the Louvre
To Egypt, at last
In search of Ramesses
First professor of Egyptology
The hieroglyphs after Champollion
Postscript: geniuses and polymaths.
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Champollion, Jean-François
Champollion, Jean-François, 1790-1832
Egyptian language
Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic
Egyptologists
Egyptologists -- France -- Biography
Writing, Hieroglyphic
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9780199914999
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