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The translation of hieroglyphics was only possible because of the discovery of the Rosetta stone. The stone contained a single passage written in three languages, hieroglyphic, Demotic, and classical Greek. Using what scholars knew of the Greek and Demotic they were able to translate the hieroglyphics

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"In 1814, Briton Thomas Young finished translating the demotic text, and began work on the hieroglyphic script. From 1822 to 1824 the French scholar, philologist, and orientalist Jean-François Champollion greatly expanded on this work and is credited as the principal translator of the Rosetta Stone."

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