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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2013
      02 February 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139175708
      9781108043908
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139175708
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 556 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Arabic and Middle Eastern Language and Linguistics, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology, Egyptology, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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    Subjects:
    Arabic and Middle Eastern Language and Linguistics, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Archaeology, Egyptology, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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    The name of Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) will always be associated with the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Champollion himself was a child prodigy who had taught himself numerous ancient languages in his teenage years, despite not having received any formal education. In this 1824 work, he expands on the discoveries he had previously outlined in 1822, giving a long and systematic account of his research, which was based on the insight of Thomas Young that clusters of hieroglyphs on the tri-lingual Rosetta Stone could be matched to known Greek and Latin names. He gave phonetic values to the signs, and then linked them to the Coptic language (familiar from its use in the liturgy of the Coptic Christian Church in Egypt), which he recognised as being descended from ancient Egyptian. The work was originally published in two volumes (the second being of illustrations), which are here bound as one.

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