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Join the Florence County Museum and the Arkhaios Cultural Heritage & Archaeology Film Festival for an evening dedicated to film, archaeology and cultural heritage, on Thursday, October 12, 5:00 to 7:00pm at the Florence County Museum in the Multipurpose Room.
This free event will include a reception, lecture and screening of a film The Champollion Brothers: The Egypt Code Breakers.
The Arkhaios Film Festival is sponsored by the SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) and the Department of Anthropology of the University of South Carolina, and the Welsch Tract Historic Properties Association, in South Carolina, and in Pennsylvania by the Department of Anthropology of the University of Pittsburgh, and the Allegheny Chapter #1 of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology.
About the film
“The Champollion Brothers: The Egypt Code Breakers”, a 2022, 52’ film by Director Jacques Plaisant.
Two hundred years ago, Jean-Francois Champollion deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs for the first time, thus solving one of the greatest enigmas in the History of Humanity.
What little is known is that behind this genius hides a man in the shadows: Jacques-Joseph, the eldest brother of the Champollion family.
The recent study of family archives shed new light on this intellectual adventure that was deciphering.
It is in the light of this latest scientific knowledge and the latest finds in the epistolary exchanges of Jean-Francois Champollion with his brother that the life of this genius is re-read.
About the Director
Jacques Plaisant is known for La nature vue du ciel (2013), Rituals of the World (2018) and Dans le secret des hiéroglyphes : Les frères Champollion (2022).
