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The most helpful thing was the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799; an inscription in three scripts.

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Q: What was used to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics?
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Who was able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics?

Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.


Which tool helped researchers decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics?

The Rosetta Stone.


What was Egypt's alphabet used for?

Hieroglyphics were used for secret codes or for privacy in writing. Only the Egyptian people can decipher hieroglyphs in the ancient time.


The Rosetta stone was used to decipher the hieroglyphics in which country?

Egypt


How are Egyptian hieroglyphics used today?

Today, hieroglyphics are only used as decorations, particularly to convey an Egyptian theme.


Are hieroglyphics Egyptian or Sumerian?

Both Egypt and Sumeria used hieroglyphics


What is the word for Egyptian writing where pictorial symbols were used?

they are called called hieroglyphics.


What is a in hieroglyphics?

There are no vowels in Egyptian hieroglyphics. The falcon is often mistakenly used as an A, but this is incorrect.


What helped scholars decipher Egyptian writing?

The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799 near Alexandria in Northern Egypt, was the key that unlocked the secret of the hieroglyphics.


In hieroglyphics why are there 2 A's?

There are no A's in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Uniliteral hieroglyphics were only used to represent consonants.The confusion might be because the letter A is sometimes used to represent the Egyptian aleph (ꜣ) or the Egyptian Ayin (ꜥ) both of which are considered consonants in Egyptian language.


Who helped archaeologists learn how to read hieroglyphics?

Jean-François Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphics by using the Rosetta stone, which enabled everyone to learn how to read them.


Why did Rosetta stone discovery help modern day scholars decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics?

It provided the first chance to understand Egyptian Hieroglyphics writing by providing the same text in Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek. Both the Greek and Demotic could be read to find out what was being said on the stone, the Hieroglyphics could then be compared and analyzed for patterns (similar to the way codes and cyphers are broken).