Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion by Andrew Robinson

The first English-language biography of linguist Jean-François Champollion describes his quest to decipher hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone.

Oxford Univ., 2012, 272 p., $29.95

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