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The keys of Egypt : the obsession to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs / Lesley and Roy Adkins.

By: Adkins, Lesley.
Contributor(s): Adkins, Roy (Roy A.).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2000Edition: 1st ed.Description: 335 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0060194391.Subject(s): Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic | Egyptian languageDDC classification: 493/.111 Summary: Chronicles Jean-Francois Champollion's attempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early nineteenth century.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-313) and index.

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Chronicles Jean-Francois Champollion's attempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs in the early nineteenth century.

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