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seeker of knowledge the man who deciphered egyptian hieroglyphs
to a child the future is a magnificent dream . for jean francois champollion the dream was to sail up the nile in egypt and uncover the secrets of the past . in 1802 when champollion was eleven years old he vowed to be the first person to read egypts ancient hieroglyphs . he faced great challenges over the next twenty years as he searched for the elusive key to the mysterious writing and the fulfillment of his dreams .
a biography of the french scholar whose decipherment of the egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient egypt possible .