Cracking the Egyptian code : the revolutionary life of Jean-François Champollion /

Cracking the Egyptian code : the revolutionary life of Jean-François Champollion /

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Main Author: Robinson, Andrew, 1957- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: London : Thames & Hudson, 2012.

Subjects:

Champollion, Jean-François, > 1790-1832.
Egyptian language > Writing, Hieroglyphic.
Egyptologists > France > Biography.

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Call Number: PJ1064 .C6 R63

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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Egyptomania
  • Hieroglyphic "delirium" before Champollion
  • A revolutionary childhood
  • Reluctant schoolboy
  • Egypt encountered
  • Paris and the Rosetta stone
  • Teenage professor
  • The race begins
  • Napoleon and Champollion
  • Exile and revolt
  • Breakthrough
  • An Egyptian renaissance
  • Curator at the Louvre
  • To Egypt, at last
  • In search of Ramesses
  • First professor of Egyptology
  • The hieroglyphs after Champollion
  • Postscript: geniuses and polymaths.