How did Champollion figure out hieroglyphic writing where others had failed? Find out in this video.



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Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing had not been written or understood for well over a thousand years when JeanFrancois Champollion figured out the key to understanding ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

How did Champollion succeed where others had failed? In this video, we discuss the advances made before Champollion and what he did that was different, which held the longsoughtafter key to a method for decoding Egyptian hieroglyphs.




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☥Andrew Robinson, Cracking the Egyptian Code – http://amzn.to/2giy6l4'>http://amzn.to/2giy6l4

An engaging read about Champollion, his brother, and other scholars who were trying to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in the nineteenth century (and before).



☥Richard Parkinson, Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment – http://amzn.to/2gGKS9S'>http://amzn.to/2gGKS9S

A wonderful overview of the Rosetta Stone, decipherment of hieroglyphs, and an introduction to how hieroglyphs (and other ancient Egyptian scripts) actually work.

This is a catalog that accompanied a museum exhibit, so it also includes many black and white and some color photographs of ancient Egyptian objects and the people involved in decipherment.




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☥Richard Parkinson quote and final line of the Rosetta Stone:

Richard Parkinson, Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Deciperment. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999, pp. 40 & 54. http://amzn.to/2gGKS9S'>http://amzn.to/2gGKS9S


☥Champollion quote about not recognizing another alphabet:

Andrew Robinson, Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of JeanFrancois Champollion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 146. – http://amzn.to/2giy6l4'>http://amzn.to/2giy6l4




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