Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion

by Andrew Robinson

Book Overview

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 gifted Frenchman named Jean-Francois Champollion successfully deciphered the hieroglyphs on the stele, now commonly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199914990
• ISBN13: 9780199914999
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"