Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion ' Palestinian novelists' A few miles away

A few miles away

As you search for answers

A brilliantly intelligent plea for complexity

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Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion ' Palestinian novelists' A few miles awayAndrew RobinsonIn this first biography in English of the Frenchman who unlocked the secret of the hieroglyphs, the author describes 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, and carefully compared the three scripts on the Rosetta Stone to penetrate the mystery of the hieroglyphic text. This extensively illustrated book also brings