An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature and Egyptian antiquities : Including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts /
Thomas Young (1773-1829) was an English physician who was one of the first modern scholars to attempt to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book, first published in 1823, provides a summary of Young's hieroglyphic research, which he believed Champollion had used without acknowledgement...
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English
Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Greek
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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Call Number: PJ1095 .Y6 2010
Summary: | Thomas Young (1773-1829) was an English physician who was one of the first modern scholars to attempt to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book, first published in 1823, provides a summary of Young's hieroglyphic research, which he believed Champollion had used without acknowledgement in his important 1822 translations. |
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Physical Description: | xv, 160 pages ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: | 9781108017169 |