[PDR] Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx

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ATHANASIUS KIRCHER AND THE HIEROGLYPHIC SPHINX

*More than 170 years before Jean-François Champollion had the first real 
success in translating Egyptian hieroglyphs, the 17th century Jesuit 
scholar Athanasius Kircher was convinced he had cracked it. He was very 
wrong. Daniel Stolzenberg looks at Kircher's /Egyptian Oedipus/, a book 
that has been called “one of the most learned monstrosities of all times.”*
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/16/athanasius-kircher-and-the-hieroglyphic-sphinx/>

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