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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers Champollion, Jean-François 1790-1832 Champollion, Jean-François 1790-1832 Juvenile literature Egyptian language Writing, Hieroglyphic Egyptian language Writing, Hieroglyphic Juvenile literature Egyptologists Egyptologists France Biography Juvenile literature HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt Young, Thomas 1773-1829Filter By Subjects
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers Champollion, Jean-François 1790-1832 Champollion, Jean-François 1790-1832 Juvenile literature Egyptian language Writing, Hieroglyphic Egyptian language Writing, Hieroglyphic Juvenile literature Egyptologists Egyptologists France Biography Juvenile literature HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt Young, Thomas 1773-1829Rumford, James.
Summary: A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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Summary: "The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British Museum ever year, and yet most people don't really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021