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Why was Bonaparte so desperate to decipher ancient Egyptian writing? Why is the path of Jean-Francois Champollion, a young genius who will be able to unravel the mystery of hieroglyphs, turned out to be so thorny? What discovery did the great commander not wait for and why did the codebreaker die? What was known to the Egyptian pharaohs and forever lost? Two mathematicians and an orientalist - Napoleon's devoted comrade-in-arms Morgan de Spag, freedom-lover and frondeur Orpheus Forjury and the publisher of Faros - J. Le Jansem - go with Napoleon to Egypt in search of the soul and essence of this mysterious country. Scientists are tormented by questions - and for half a century all three have been collecting evidence bit by bit in order to unravel the mystery of Napoleon, the mystery of Champollion and the mystery of the pharaohs. The last of them will learn the truth on his deathbed - and this truth will turn the lives of those who have already died, are approaching death, or will live forever.