Chasing Hieroglyphs: My Journey to Egypt

Jean-Francois Champollion

Chasing Hieroglyphs: My Journey to Egypt
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Gibson Square
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 August 2022
Pages
288
ISBN
9781783342235

Chasing Hieroglyphs: My Journey to Egypt

Jean-Francois Champollion

As a child Jean-Francois Champollion had but one fervent wish–to travel to Egypt and solve the mystery of the ancient hieroglyphs. Finally, a brief lull in the Mediterranean war against the Ottoman Sultan offered his expedition a window of a few days in 1828 to disembark. Egypt proved a treacherous place, and not only because it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Champollion’s secret diary entries vividly chronicle the dangers, his exhilarated enthusiasm for the subjugated country, and not least the remarkable discoveries that were to found the new science of Egyptology. Of the twelve expedition members only a few survived its hardships. Champollion accomplished his dream, but he, too, paid the price when he died at the age of 41 shortly after returning to France.

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