“I've got it!”

✒️ #JeanFrancoisChampollion, French scholar who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics with the #RosettaStone, was #BOTD 23 December 1790. #Egyptology #History

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“I've got it!”

✒️ #JeanFrancoisChampollion, French scholar who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics with the #RosettaStone, was #BOTD 23 December 1790. #Egyptology #History

#JeanFrançoisChampollion announced on this day in 1822 that he had successfully deciphered the Rosetta Stone: his comparison of the Egyptian hieroglyphics on the stone with the Greek & demotic script broke the code & paved the way for the deciphering of hieroglyphics
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