Cracking the Egyptian code
Subtitle: the revolutionary life of Jean-François Champollion
By: Andrew Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780199914999
Subjects: Egyptologists; Egyptian language; Hieroglyphic Writing; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Egyptomania; title: Hieroglyphic "delirium" before Champollion; title: A revolutionary childhood; title: Reluctant schoolboy; title: Egypt encountered; title: Paris and the Rosetta stone; title: Teenage professor; title: The race begins; title: Napoleon and Champollion; title: Exile and revolt; title: Breakthrough; title: An Egyptian renaissance; title: Curator at the Louvre; title: To Egypt, at last; title: In search of Ramesses; title: First professor of Egyptology; title: The hieroglyphs after Champollion; title: Postscript: geniuses and polymaths.