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- Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)
How To Use Champollion In A Sentence
- Only a feat of brilliant decipherment by Jean-François Champollion, working in the 1820s, allowed us to understand ancient Egypt again in its own terms. Beyond the Pharaohs
- Champollion wondered if the first hieroglyph in the cartouche, the disc, might represent the sun, and then he assumed its sound value to be that of the Coptic word for sun, ‘ra’.
- I believe that this site was the ultimate trophy goal of French pyramidologist Jean-François Champollion," Hawass added. TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
- By mastering hieroglyphics , Champollion unlocked a mystery and brought back to life one of the world's oldest and most fascinating civilization.
- In the 1820s, Jean-François Champollion undertook the decoding, indeed the deciphering, of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
- Champollion went on to show that for most of their writing, the scribes relied on using a relatively conventional phonetic alphabet.
- But of course the great intellectual barrier that Champollion had to overcome was this long-held assumption that hieroglyphics were just picture writing.
- Rosetta stone, and metes to Young and Champollion their due shares in that discovery, of which each uncandidly claimed the whole. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
