Egyptian-The First Great Decipherment
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 1148699 | KanopyPublisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file)Content type:- two-dimensional moving image
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Features: Marc Zender Tulane University
Originally produced by The Teaching Company/The Great Courses in 2013.
Before Jean-Francois Champollion deciphered hieroglyphic writing in 1822, no one had been able to read a word of Egyptian. Why were Egyptian history and its ancient language and writing system forgotten? How did early attempts at decipherment go astray? Get the answers here as you learn what clues led Champollion to success.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English