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Jean Francois Champollion used the Rosetta Stone to translate Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
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Deciphering hieroglyphics, and hence being one of the first Egyptologists.
It allowed Champollion to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs into ancient Greek and then from Greek into modern romance languages. The hieroglyphics could be understood for the first time in over 1,000 years.
in 1822, Jean-François first translated Egyptian hieroglyphs
The Rosetta Stone - It was a piece of black stone about the size of a small coffee table which provided a key to the puzzle of the lost ancient Egyptian language. It was discovered in 1799 by French soldiers near the city of Rosetta on the Nile delta. It had three different types of language on it. One was Greek, and the other two were forms of Egyptian language. Scholars were able to read the Greek, but after twenty years, they still were not able to figure out the Egyptian. One of them was hieroglyphics, but they did not know the meaning. Jean Champollin finally discovered that the characters once stood for sounds. This was the key to the mystery language. Scholars were then able to translate the writing off the walls of tombs and pyramids. It's= Jean-François Champollion =Of course there were many people in antiquity who were able to read and translate hieroglyphic texts, but this knowledge was lost early in the first millennium A.D. The first person to translate hieroglyphs in the modern era was the French scholar Jean-François Champollion, in 1822.
The Rosetta Stone that was discovered in 1799 was used by the scholars to understand hieroglyphs of Egypt. The success of the decoding was by Jean-François Champollion.
Jean-François Champollion was a French Egyptologist who, in 1922, "translated" the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is a rock on which the same ancient edict was carved in three different languages, including ancient Greek and Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Champillion was able to use the Greek to show how to "decode" the hieroglyphs and, from that, formed the basic understanding of ancient Egyptian writing. His work is still used today by Egyptologists.
The person who inscribed the Rosetta Stone (which was used by Joan Francés Champolion in modern times to break the code for translating hieroglyphics) must be credited with the first documented proof for translating hieroglyphics.The Rosetta Stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BCE.
Jean-François Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphics by using the Rosetta stone, which enabled everyone to learn how to read them.
It revealed how Egyptian hieroglyphs could be read. The stone contained three texts, one of them in Greek. It was French scientist Jean-François Champollion who came up with the idea that the texts must be identical and who managed to match the hieroglyphs to the Greek text.
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.