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Two page article from The Lancet.
The art of medicine. Jean-François Champollion and ancient Egyptian embalming
By Andrew Robinson
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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 Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832)—the fi rst person since classical antiquity to be able to read the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs—conducted a primitive experiment. It turned out to be one of the initial scientifi c steps on the long road to unravelling the mysteries of mummifi cation, fi rst described in the fi fth century BC by the Greek historian Herodotus.
In 1812, Champollion was an impecunious 21-year-old assistant professor of history at the University of Grenoble and an assistant at the city’s municipal library. A teenage prodigy in Oriental languages, he had become obsessed by understanding ancient Egypt, as a result of his schoolboy exposure to fascinating antiquities brought back from Egypt by the scientist and prefect of Grenoble, Joseph Fourier, who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte’s army on its expedition in 1798–1801.
- Book Review: Cracking The Egyptian Code
Wall Street Journal Cracking the Egyptian Code, By Andrew Robinson. Oxford. On Sept. 14, 1822, as legend tells the tale, Jean-François Champollion burst into his brother's Paris office at the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, flung...
- 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. This is the first full biography of...
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- 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...
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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:...