A review of how ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were first translated 200 years ago, and a look at the archaeological work now being done in Egypt to understand one of the empire’s most important ...
On this day in 1822, an ”over-the-top, histrionic, melodramatic figure,” Jean-François Champollion, announced his decipherment of the Rosetta Stone, a stele from Ptolemaic Egypt inscribed with a ...