This seemed like the most realistic outcome for the long-lived language until french soldiers and engineers uncovered a large stone that is now commonly known as the Rosetta Stone. This stone is significant because it bore the same text in three different ways: in hieroglyphs, in the demotic script, and in ancient Greek. Because Greek had been translated by this time, they were able to translate the Greek and decipher the other two texts. Jean François Champollion is known to be the first modern person to be able to read hieroglyphics. In the year 1828, Champollion led a group of architects and artists to Egypt to draw pictures of tombs and temples in the hopes of copying down every hieroglyphic inscription they came across. Hieroglyphics were still being deciphered after Champollion’s death and continues to the present day (“Egypt”). Learning all we can about hieroglyphics has helped and provided us with new information about life in ancient Egypt that we would not know
This seemed like the most realistic outcome for the long-lived language until french soldiers and engineers uncovered a large stone that is now commonly known as the Rosetta Stone. This stone is significant because it bore the same text in three different ways: in hieroglyphs, in the demotic script, and in ancient Greek. Because Greek had been translated by this time, they were able to translate the Greek and decipher the other two texts. Jean François Champollion is known to be the first modern person to be able to read hieroglyphics. In the year 1828, Champollion led a group of architects and artists to Egypt to draw pictures of tombs and temples in the hopes of copying down every hieroglyphic inscription they came across. Hieroglyphics were still being deciphered after Champollion’s death and continues to the present day (“Egypt”). Learning all we can about hieroglyphics has helped and provided us with new information about life in ancient Egypt that we would not know