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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 Robinson
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2022
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- Titel
- Cracking the Egyptian Code
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Andrew Robinson
- Verlag
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2022
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0500296928
- ISBN13
- 9780500296929
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Historisches Thema, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Geschichte, Narrativer Journalismus, Frankreich, Sprachen, Linguistik, 19. Jahrhundert, Ägypten, Ägyptologie, Hieroglyphen
- Originaltitel
- Cracking the Egyptian code
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- Beschreibung
- 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.