Plot: This is the story of Jean-François Champollion, the brilliant linguist, genius and one of the first true Egyptologists. The programme begins in Egypt in 1798, when the country had been virtually closed to Europeans for centuries and its ancient culture lost and forgotten for over a thousand years
Matthew Kelly
Lynsey Baxter
Andrew Sachs
Julian Wadham
Caroline Langrishe
Alexandra Weaver
Elliot Cowan
Laurence Fox
Stuart Graham
Valentine Pelka