Lesley & Roy Adkins
The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st edition | 2000 | ISBN-10: 0060194391 | ISBN-13: 978 0060194390 | English | PDF | 352 pages | 10.16 Mb
Jean-François Champollion's biography is neatly interwoven with Napoleonic history and the functions of Egyptian hieroglyphs in The Keys of Egypt. A gifted bookseller's son born in Revolutionary France, Champollion was to become "gripped by energetic enthusiasm" for Egypt. By the age of 12, he was studying several ancient languages, and, amid a "wave of Egyptomania," he would beat rivals to discover the key to deciphering hieroglyphs. …