by Jean-Michel Riou · EDB FICCION · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466620383
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«El secreto de Champollion» is the historical novel by Jean-Michel Riou, published by EDB Ficción in hardcover (384 pages, in Spanish).
After the French Revolution, three researchers accompany Napoleon to Egypt to decipher the hieroglyphs and find the source of the pharaohs' divine power. Amid battles, thefts and spies, Champollion manages to decipher the writing, though the discovery comes at a very high price.
The translation from French is by Manuel Serrat Crespo. The original title is «Le secret de Champollion». The work was published on January 25, 2006.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction interested in ancient Egypt, the Napoleonic expedition and the decipherment of hieroglyphs.
