David Tresilian visits a major exhibition on decipherer of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics Jean-François Champollion at the Louvre Lens Museum in northern France The Louvre Lens Museum is celebrating ...

On Saturday, scholars and diplomats in Cairo, Paris and London marked the 203rd anniversary of the day in 1822 when French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ...

French scholar Jean-François Champollion announced his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs on September 27, 1822 Trending Today Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History “The first ...

In archaeology, as in other sciences, assigning credit for achievements is often controversial. The decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs in the 1820s is an intriguing case. Recognition for this great ...

For centuries, the meaning of the mysterious and mystical Egyptian hieroglyphs baffled the greatest minds in the world. Then, in 1799, the discovery of the most famous piece of rock in archaeology ...

Series'1822. The deciphering of hieroglyphs' (5/5). In the absence of a multilingual text like the Rosetta Stone, which was the key to understanding ancient Egyptian for Champollion, researchers ...

Guided by the Rosetta Stone—discovered by Napoleon’s army in 1799 and showcasing three parallel inscriptions in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic, and ancient Greek—the penurious, ...