by Michel Dewachter · Découvertes Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070531035
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«Champollion: Un scribe pour l'Égypte» is Michel Dewachter's biography of Jean-François Champollion, published by Découvertes Gallimard in paperback.
Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832), philologist, historian and archaeologist, deciphered hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone and his mastery of Coptic. In 1822 he gave voice back to a civilization silenced for fifteen centuries. Michel Dewachter frames this feat within the archaeological discoveries of the Nile Valley.
Volume 96 of the Découvertes Gallimard collection, in the Archéologie series; published in 1990, 144 pages, text in French, with bibliographic references and index.
For readers interested in Egyptology, the history of writing and biographies of key figures in archaeology.
