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Cracking the Egyptian Code - The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion (Paperback)
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Cracking the Egyptian Code - The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion (Paperback)
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Loot Price R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
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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-Francois 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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