The Correspondence of Edward Hincks: V. 3: 1857-1866 Volume 3

by Edward Hincks

Edward Hincks (1792-1866), the Irish Assyriologist and decipherer of Mesopotamian cuneiform, was born in Cork and spent forty years of his life at Killyleagh, Co. Down, where he was the Church of Ireland Rector. He was educated at Midleton College, Co. Cork and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was an exceptionally gifted student. With the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by Jean Francois Champollion in 1822, Hincks became one of that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904558720
• ISBN13: 9781904558729
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University College Dublin Press
• Length: 368 Pages