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An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 1822. Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-François Champollion, the impoverished, arrogant and brilliant child of the French Revolution who made the vital breakthrough in deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs. This account charts Champollion's dramatic life and achievements: by turns a teenage professor, a supporter of Napoleon, an exile, a fanatical decipherer and a curator at the Louvre, he lived life to the full but drove himself into an early grave. Andrew Robinson's full-blooded account brings the man, his setbacks and his ultimate triumphs vividly to life.
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Cracking the Egyptian Code, Andrew J. Robinson
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- 2022
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- Título
- Cracking the Egyptian Code
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Andrew J. Robinson
- Editorial
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publicado en
- 2022
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0500296928
- ISBN13
- 9780500296929
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Historia, Historias reales, Biografías, Periodismo narrativo, Francia, Idiomas, Siglo XIX, Lingüística, Egipto, Egiptología, Jeroglíficos
- Título original
- Cracking the Egyptian code
- Calificación
- 4 de 5
- Descripción
- An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 1822. Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-François Champollion, the impoverished, arrogant and brilliant child of the French Revolution who made the vital breakthrough in deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs. This account charts Champollion's dramatic life and achievements: by turns a teenage professor, a supporter of Napoleon, an exile, a fanatical decipherer and a curator at the Louvre, he lived life to the full but drove himself into an early grave. Andrew Robinson's full-blooded account brings the man, his setbacks and his ultimate triumphs vividly to life.