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Andrew Robinson
Cracking the Egyptian Code
Hay Festival 2012,
The first biography in English of Jean-François Champollion, the impoverished, arrogant and brilliant child of the French Revolution who made the vital breakthrough in deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs.