{"id":57870,"date":"2025-08-17T14:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.ktebiktebek.com\/livre\/the-keys-of-egypt-the-race-to-crack\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T01:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:08:31","slug":"the-keys-of-egypt-the-race-to-crack","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ktebiktebek.com\/ar\/livre\/the-keys-of-egypt-the-race-to-crack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code – Lesley Adkins , Roy A. Adkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code est un ouvrage de Lesley Adkins et Roy A. Adkins consacr\u00e9 au d\u00e9chiffrement des hi\u00e9roglyphes. Il retrace la course entre Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Champollion et ses rivaux, sur fond d'Europe de l'\u00e9poque napol\u00e9onienne.<\/p>\n

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A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleonic era. When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his troops were astonished to discover ancient temples, tombs and statues, all covered with hieroglyphs. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The last remnants of an unreadable script and a language lost in time. On their return Egyptomania spread rapidly and the quest to decipher hieroglyphs began in earnest. Jean-Francois Champollion was obsessed with ancient languages from a very young age, and once he heard of the unreadable ancient Egyptian text he had found the challenge to which he would dedicate his the decipherment of hieroglyphs. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Despite poverty he made gradual progress, although he had to fight against jealous enemies, both professional and political, every step of the way — a dangerous task when in post-Revolutionary France a slip of the tongue could mean ruin, exile or even death. Failure threatened, as he was only one of many attempting to read the hieroglyphs, and his main rival, the English Thomas Young, claimed that decipherment was imminent, but Champollion refused to be distracted and finally, in 1822, he made the decisive he was the first person able to read the ancient Egyptian language in well over a thousand years.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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R\u00e9sum\u00e9 de The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code \u2013 Lesley Adkins , Roy A. Adkins<\/h2>\n

Lorsque Napol\u00e9on envahit l'\u00c9gypte en 1798, ses soldats d\u00e9couvrent des temples, des tombes et des statues couverts d'hi\u00e9roglyphes, vestiges d'une langue perdue dans le temps. \u00c0 leur retour, la mode de l'\u00e9gyptomanie se r\u00e9pand en Europe et la qu\u00eate pour d\u00e9chiffrer ces signes commence s\u00e9rieusement. Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Champollion, fils d'un libraire pauvre, se passionne tr\u00e8s jeune pour les langues anciennes et consacre sa vie \u00e0 ce d\u00e9fi. Malgr\u00e9 la pauvret\u00e9 et des rivaux jaloux, professionnels comme politiques, il progresse pas \u00e0 pas. Concurrenc\u00e9 notamment par l'Anglais Thomas Young, il refuse de se laisser distraire et parvient en 1822 \u00e0 une perc\u00e9e d\u00e9cisive. Le livre d\u00e9crit cette course intellectuelle dans une France post-r\u00e9volutionnaire o\u00f9 la prudence est de mise.<\/p>\n

\u00c0 propos de Lesley Adkins<\/h2>\n

Lesley Adkins et Roy A. Adkins forment un couple d'auteurs britanniques sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9s dans l'histoire et l'arch\u00e9ologie de l'Antiquit\u00e9. Ils ont publi\u00e9 plusieurs ouvrages de vulgarisation sur l'\u00c9gypte ancienne et la Rome antique, destin\u00e9s \u00e0 un large public curieux de civilisations anciennes.<\/p>\n

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