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Cracking the Egyptian code : the revolutionary life of Jean-Francois Champollion

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 (a name he first coined), and carefully compared the three scripts on the Rosetta Stone to penetrate the mystery of the hieroglyphic text. Robinson also brings to life the rivalry between Champollion and the English scientist Thomas Young, who claimed credit for launching the decipherment, which Champollion hotly denied. There is much more to Champollion's life than the Rosetta Stone and Robinson gives equal weight to the many roles he played in his tragically brief life, from a teenage professor in Revolutionary France to a supporter of Napoleon (whom he met), an exile, and a curator at the Louvre.

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  • "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 (a name he first coined), and carefully compared the three scripts on the Rosetta Stone to penetrate the mystery of the hieroglyphic text. Robinson also brings to life the rivalry between Champollion and the English scientist Thomas Young, who claimed credit for launching the decipherment, which Champollion hotly denied. There is much more to Champollion's life than the Rosetta Stone and Robinson gives equal weight to the many roles he played in his tragically brief life, from a teenage professor in Revolutionary France to a supporter of Napoleon (whom he met), an exile, and a curator at the Louvre."@en
  • "Zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts entbrannte der dramatische Wettstreit um die Entzifferung der Hieroglyphen. Ein Duell, zunächst zwischen Thomas Young und Jean-François Champollion, schließlich zwischen England und Frankreich. Andrew Robinson schildert in diesem herrlich illustrierten Band, wie der Hieroglyphen-Code geknackt wurde, und liefert dabei zugleich die erste moderne Biographie Champollions - ein junger Wissenschaftler, der sich mit den römischen Obelisken beschäftigte, Papyrussammlungen studierte und schließlich nach Ägypten reiste, um eine vergangene Kultur zu enträtseln. Er besuc."
  • "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 Engl."@en

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  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
  • "Biographie"
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  • "Biografie"

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  • "Muž, který rozluštil hieroglyfy : život Jeana-Françoise Champolliona"
  • "Wie der Hieroglyphen-Code geknackt wurde Das revolutionäre Leben des Jean-François Champollion"
  • "Cracking the Egyptian code the revolutionary life of Jean-Francois Champollion"
  • "Wie der Hieroglyphen-Code geknackt wurde : Das revolutionäre Leben des Jean-François Champollion"
  • "Cracking the Egyptian code : the revolutionary life of Jean-Francois Champollion"
  • "Cracking the Egyptian code : the revolutionary life of Jean-Francois Champollion"@en
  • "Cracking the Egyptian code : the revolutionary life of Jean-François Champollion"@en
  • "Cracking the Egyptian code : the revolutionary life of Jean-François Champollion"
  • "Cracking the Egyptian Code"@en
  • "Cracking the Egyptian code the revolutionary life of Jean-François Champollion"@en
  • "Wie der Hieroglyphen-Code geknackt wurde : das revolutionäre Leben des Jean-François Champollion"
  • "Wie der Hieroglyphen-Code Geknackt Wurde : das Revolutionäre Leben des Jean-François Champollion"
  • "Cracking the Egyptian Code the Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion"@en

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