The Egyptian Museum, Turin
Author : Alessandro Roccati
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788824000840
Author : Alessandro Roccati
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788824000840
Author : Ernesto SCAMUZZI
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 1968
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Museo Egizio
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
ISBN : 9788843578511
Author : Piera Condulmer
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Art, Egyptian
ISBN :
Author : Frederico Garolla
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199942900
In 1799 Napoleon's army uncovered an ancient stele in the Nile delta. Its inscription, recorded in three distinct scripts--ancient Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic--would provide scholars with the first clues to unlocking the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs, a language lost for nearly two millennia. More than twenty years later a remarkably gifted Frenchman named Jean-Francois Champollion successfully deciphered the hieroglyphs on the stele, now commonly known as the Rosetta Stone, sparking a revolution in our knowledge of ancient Egypt. Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Champollion, widely regarded as the founder of Egyptology. Andrew Robinson meticulously reconstructs how Champollion cracked the code of the hieroglyphic script, describing how Champollion started with Egyptian obelisks in Rome and papyri in European collections, sailed the Nile for a year, studied the tombs in the Valley of the Kings (a name he first coined), and carefully compared the three scripts on the Rosetta Stone to penetrate the mystery of the hieroglyphic text. Robinson also brings to life the rivalry between Champollion and the English scientist Thomas Young, who claimed credit for launching the decipherment, which Champollion hotly denied. There is much more to Champollion's life than the Rosetta Stone and Robinson gives equal weight to the many roles he played in his tragically brief life, from a teenage professor in Revolutionary France to a supporter of Napoleon (whom he met), an exile, and a curator at the Louvre. Extensively illustrated in color and black-and-white pictures, Cracking the Egyptian Code will appeal to a wide readership interested in Egypt, decipherment and code-breaking, and Napoleon and the French Revolution.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780894941313
Author : Museo egizio di Torino
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Art objects, Egyptian
ISBN :
The beauties of the Egyptian Museum are presented to the reader by museum director, Professor Ernesto Scamuzzi. The reader will be authoritatively informed while enjoying the panorama of Egyptian art from its shadowy beginnings, through its great accomplishments, to its final assimilation in the Roman world.