Champollion’s adventures: Revealing the Pharaoh’s secrets

If you live in Paris, you are already concealing secrets that no one else knows: it is the city of secret keepers, dreamers, writers, and exiled individuals. For centuries and particularly during the 19th century there was a fascination with the Pharaohs of Egypt. This period was called Egyptomania because Napoleon’s interest and his domination of Egypt provoked and enticed the spirits of Europeans and orientalists toward Egypt or its capital Cairo which used to be called Anb-Haj or Kemet in ancient Egypt. At the same time, British scholar Thomas Young was circling the graves in the pyramid ar…

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