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Cracking the Egyptian code : the revolutionary life of Jean-François Champollion / Andrew Robinson.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection PJ1064.C6 R63 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Andrew, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Champollion, Jean-François, 1790-1832.
- Champollion, Jean-François.
- Egyptologists--France--Biography.
- Egyptologists.
- Egyptian language--Writing, Hieroglyphic.
- Egyptian language.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199914999
- 0199914990
- OCLC:
- 757485780
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