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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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- Année de publication
- 2022
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- Titre
- Cracking the Egyptian Code
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Andrew J. Robinson
- Éditeur
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publié
- 2022
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0500296928
- ISBN13
- 9780500296929
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Thème historique, Histoire, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Journalisme littéraire, France, Langues, 19e siècle, Linguistique, Égypte, Égyptologie, Hiéroglyphes
- Titre original
- Cracking the Egyptian code
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- 4 sur 5
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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.