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How Did the Rosetta Stone Unlock Egyptian Hieroglyphs?
💡 The Answer
- The stone features the same decree inscribed in three scripts: hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Ancient Greek.
- Scholars could read Ancient Greek, so they used it as a key to translate the unknown Egyptian scripts.
- Thomas Young first identified that cartouches contained royal names, providing a crucial breakthrough.
- Jean-François Champollion later built on this work, fully deciphering the hieroglyphic system by 1822.
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