by Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkin · Debate Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483063637
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«Las claves de Egipto: la carrera por leer los jeroglíficos» is the historical essay by Lesley and Roy Adkins, published by Debate in hardcover (336 pages).
It recounts the race to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, from Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798 and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the struggle of European scholars to be the first to read that script, with a central role for Jean-François Champollion.
Translation by Juan Manuel Ibeas of the original work The Keys of Egypt; this Spanish edition was published in 2000 within Debate's Pequeña gran historia collection.
For the general public interested in ancient Egypt, Egyptology, and the history of great decipherments.
