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Cartouches enclosed the names of Egyptian royalty. They furnished a priceless clue to Jean-François Champollion in deciphering the hieroglyphic inscription on the Rosetta Stone, since they identified the hieroglyphs that corresponded to the royal names known from the Greek version of the text.

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