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Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion
Cracking the Egyptian Code The Revolutionary Life of JeanFrancois Champollion
Author: Andrew Robinson
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 gifte...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199914999
ISBN-10: 0199914990
Publication Date: 6/1/2012
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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