The Ancient Egyptians.
The most helpful thing was the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799; an inscription in three scripts.
The Rosetta Stone let archaeologists understand, read and find out about Ancient Egyptian Civilizations. The Rosetta Stone had hieroglyphics written on it.
The Rosetta Stone is a stone tablet that has a King's decree inscribed on it in three languages. The three repetitions are Greek, a later Egyptian and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics written one above another. Because it has essentially the same text written in three languages it was the key to translating ancient hieroglyphics which, until the discovery and translation of this writing, was a cryptic mystery.
the three scripts are hieroglyphic, demotic and classical
It enables us to read ancient Egyptian writing.
Champollion
Jean-pierre Champollion
Scribes did.
Jean-François Champollion cracked the meaning of hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphics
Egyptians hieroglyphics are picture letters
hieroglyphics
they are called called hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphics were made to show a sound.https://discoveringegypt.com/egyptian-hieroglyphic-writing/egyptian-hieroglyphic-alphabet/
Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
They are called Egyptian hieroglyphics in modern times. In ancient times, they were called "words of the gods"