Chasing Hieroglyphs: My Journey to Egypt

Two years after cracking the hieroglyphic code, JeanFrançois Champollion embarked on his ultimate dream: a historic 1828 expedition into an Egypt gripped by Ottoman warfare and a global pandemic. This classic travel journal vividly captures the dangerous realities of his journey, his infectious passion for the landscape, and the monumental discoveries that founded modern Egyptology. Packed with cinematic peril, only a few expedition members survived the brutal hardships. Champollion achieved immortality through his work but paid the ultimate price, dying at just forty-one shortly after his return.