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The Keys of Egypt The Race to Read the Hieroglyphs
by Adkins, Lesley & Roy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0002570912
- ISBN 13
- 9780002570916
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About This Item
London: Harpercollins. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, corners lightly bumped. ; First edition, first printing with full number line. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. DJ design uncredited. ; B&W Illustrations and Photographs; 352 pages; The exciting story of the scramble to decipher hieroglyphs, set against the background of Europe in the Napoleonic era and its aftermath, and the rediscovery of the Nile Valley after it had been closed to Europeans for nearly 2,000 years. When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his troops were astonished to discover ancient temples, tombs and statues, all covered with hieroglyphs – 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: fame and fortune awaited the scholar who succeeded. .
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32719
- Title
- The Keys of Egypt The Race to Read the Hieroglyphs
- Author
- Adkins, Lesley & Roy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0002570912
- ISBN 13
- 9780002570916
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
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- History;
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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