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Chasing Hieroglyphs: My Journey to Egypt by Jean Francois Champollion; Joyce Tyldesley (Foreword by); Peter A. Clayton (Translator)
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As a child Jean-François 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 pla ...Show more
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