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Q: Who was the french scholar who deciphered the Rosetta Stone in 1822 and cracked the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics?
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French scholar who deciphered the Rosetta Stone in 1822 and cracked the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics?

Champollion


Who broke the Rosetta coat?

French linguist Jean-Francois Champollion who deciphered the Rosetta Stone and cracked the hieroglyphic code.


Who cracked the Egyptian hieroglyphics code?

The Ancient Egyptians.


Who studied Egyptian hieroglyphics and cracked the meaning of picture writing?

Scribes did.


Who cracked the meaning of hieroglyphics after many years of study?

Jean-François Champollion cracked the meaning of hieroglyphics.


How has the Rosetta stone help historians understand Egypts past?

It enables us to read ancient Egyptian writing.


Who cracked the code to the Rosetta stone?

Jean François Champollion


Who studied hieroglyphics for many years and cracked the meaning of the picture writing?

His name was Jean-François Champollion


Who studied the Egyptians hieroglyphics for many years and cracked the meaning of this ancient picture writing?

Jean-François Champollion did this.


How was the Rossetta stone decoded?

As stone was written in old Hieroglyphics and new hieroglyphics no one knew what it said. Until they saw at the bottom of it, it was written in Greek as well, so then a French codebreaker who knew Greek cracked the meanings in hieroglyphics. And read the stone and found out what it meant.


How did the Rosetta help us understand hieroglyphics?

It had the same writing in 3 different languages and one was Greek and so the translated the Greek words to the hieroglyphic pictures and cracked the code. wich now makes us understand heiroglyphics today :)


Why do Americans claim they cracked the enigma code?

The German Enigma Code, which they thought was uncrackable, was deciphered by British cryptologists at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire near the modern town of Milton Keynes.