The Code-breaker's Secret Diaries: Rediscovering Ancient Egypt - Softcover

Champollion, Jean-Francois; Tyldesley, Joyce

 
9781903933831: The Code-breaker's Secret Diaries: Rediscovering Ancient Egypt
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1903933838 ISBN 13: 9781903933831
Verlag: Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

As a child Jean-Francois Champollion had but one fervent wish - to travel to Egypt and solve the mystery of the ancient hieroglyphs. Finally, a brief lull in the Mediterranean war against the Ottoman Sultan offered his expedition a window of a few days in 1828 to disembark. Egypt proved a treacherous place, and not only because it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Champollion's secret diary entries vividly chronicle the dangers, his exhilarated enthusiasm for the subjugated country, and not least the remarkable discoveries that were to found the new science of Egyptology. Of the twelve expedition members only a few survived its hardships. Champollion accomplished his dream, but he, too, paid the price when he died at the age of 41.

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Jean-Francois Champollion broke the code of the hieroglyphs and is the founding father of Egyptology. Dr Joyce Tyldesley is Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester and acclaimed author of Egypt. She lives in Lancashire.

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Verlag
Gibson Square Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1903933838
ISBN 13 
9781903933831
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Anzahl der Seiten
404
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