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Jean-Francois Champollion used the "Rosetta Stone" which is a stone tablet discovered by Napoleonic soldiers in 1799. The stone records a decree of the pharaoh Ptolemy V in three languages - Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic script and Ancient Greek.

By comparing the three languages, Champollion could assign sounds and meanings to the hieroglyphs, thus identifying the hieroglyphic alphabet and grammar structure as well as laying the foundation for a hieroglyphic dictionary..
he knew Greek and he knew ancient Greek. so he matched the Greek to the ancient Greek and then he matched the ancient Greek to the hieroglyphics.

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