TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Andrew
TI  - Cracking the Egyptian code: the revolutionary life of Jean-Francois Champollion 
SN  - 9780500294178
U1  - 493.1092 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Champollion, Jean-Francois,
KW  - Rosetta stone
KW  - Egyptologists
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Philologists
KW  - Egyptian language
KW  - Writing, Hieroglyphic
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - First published in 2012; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In 1799 Napoleon's army uncovered an ancient stele in the Nile delta. Its inscription, recorded in three distinct scripts ancient Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic would provide scholars with the first clues to unlocking the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs, a language lost for nearly two millennia. More than twenty years later a remarkably gifted Frenchman named Jean-Francois Champollion successfully deciphered the hieroglyphs on the stele, now commonly known as the Rosetta Stone, sparking a revolution in our knowledge of ancient Egypt. Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Champollion, widely regarded as the founder of Egyptology. Andrew Robinson meticulously reconstructs how Champollion cracked the code of the hieroglyphic script, describing how Champollion started with Egyptian obelisks in Rome and papyri in European collections, sailed the Nile for a year, studied the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, and carefully compared the three scripts on the Rosetta Stone to penetrate the mystery of the hieroglyphic text
ER  -