Fascinating Hieroglyphics
Subtitle: Discovering, Decoding & Understanding the Ancient Art
By: Christian Jacq
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng; egy
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Le petit Champollion illustré
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780806981000
Copyright date: 1994, English translation 1997
Other titles: Le petit Champollion illustré
Description: For centuries not a person alive could decipher the famed ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Then Jean Francois Champollion suddenly came to understand that a single figure could be a picture, a symbol, and a sound all at once, and the code was broken!
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218) and index.