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How Did We Really Crack The Rosetta Stone?

How did we really decipher the Ancient Egyptian language? Was the discovery of the Rosetta Stone crucial to cracking ...
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Science history: Rosetta stone is deciphered, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization — Sept. 27, 1822

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...