Egypt
- Online: The Art Of Medicine By Andrew Robinson
andrewrobinson.org Two page article from The Lancet. The art of medicine. Jean-François Champollion and ancient Egyptian embalming By Andrew Robinson 200 years ago this year, the future founder of Egyptology, French linguist and archaeologist...
- Three Book Reviews On The Ft
Financial Times (John Ray) Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion, by Andrew Robinson, Thames & Hudson, RRP£19.95, 272 pages A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid, by John...
- Book Review: The Rosetta Stone And The Rebirth Of Ancient Egypt
Washington Post The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt by John Ray (Harvard) - reviewed by Jonathon Keats. This is actually less of a review than a short summary of the book's main focal points. It provides very little in the way of opinion...
- Review: The Last Man Who Knew Everything - Thomas Young
http://tinyurl.com/2tuv75 (calendarlive.com)"Resistant to artificial barriers and educated in various countries, Young became one of the first truly international scientists, corresponding with experts from all over the world. . . . The best part of the...
- Figeac
http://tinyurl.com/de6g2 (The Telegraph) This is actually a travel article about the south of France, but it does contain a quick couple of paragraphs about hieroglyph decipherer Champollion's home town Figeac, where his former home is now a museum:...
Egypt
Book Review: Cracking the Egyptian Code
The Independent, UK (Review by Brian MOrton)
Cracking The Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life Of Jean-François Champollion, By Andrew Robinson
More of a summary of Champollion than a review of of the book.
Cracking The Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life Of Jean-François Champollion, By Andrew Robinson
More of a summary of Champollion than a review of of the book.
This is the first full biography of Champollion in English. Robinson has previously written about Young and about Michael Ventris, decipherer of Linear B, but he isn't blinded by knowledge of his subject and he lacks the faintly sensational touch of Lesley and Roy Adkins' book The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Read the Hieroglyphics. He presents instead a convincing and warm-hearted intellectual portrait of Champollion, who died at 41 after transforming our understanding of the ancient world.
- Online: The Art Of Medicine By Andrew Robinson
andrewrobinson.org Two page article from The Lancet. The art of medicine. Jean-François Champollion and ancient Egyptian embalming By Andrew Robinson 200 years ago this year, the future founder of Egyptology, French linguist and archaeologist...
- Three Book Reviews On The Ft
Financial Times (John Ray) Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion, by Andrew Robinson, Thames & Hudson, RRP£19.95, 272 pages A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid, by John...
- Book Review: The Rosetta Stone And The Rebirth Of Ancient Egypt
Washington Post The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt by John Ray (Harvard) - reviewed by Jonathon Keats. This is actually less of a review than a short summary of the book's main focal points. It provides very little in the way of opinion...
- Review: The Last Man Who Knew Everything - Thomas Young
http://tinyurl.com/2tuv75 (calendarlive.com)"Resistant to artificial barriers and educated in various countries, Young became one of the first truly international scientists, corresponding with experts from all over the world. . . . The best part of the...
- Figeac
http://tinyurl.com/de6g2 (The Telegraph) This is actually a travel article about the south of France, but it does contain a quick couple of paragraphs about hieroglyph decipherer Champollion's home town Figeac, where his former home is now a museum:...