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The above is the opening paragraph of the paperback edition of Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion. ​Read the full Prologue below.

 

Read extracts from the following books:

 

​​2011
The Apu Trilogy:

Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic 


2011: 
Genius:

A Very Short Introduction


2012
Earthquake:

Nature and Culture


2014
India:
 
2019:


2021:

Satyajit Ray:

The Inner Eye


2023:

The Last Man Who Knew Everything:

Thomas Young