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

By Science News

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

A version of this article appears in the July 28, 2012 issue of Science News.

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