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The Rosetta Stone

In Our Time

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The Hieroglyphic Alphabet of Ancient Egypt

Egyptian hieroglyphs were thought to write the sounds of names. Champolion realized that they could also be used for traditional eEgyptian names. If same sound principle was used for e Egyptian kings, it could have been used for the e Egyptian language as a whole. But champoleon couldn't do what thomas young had been on the verge of doing,. because he was blinded by this classical account that the egyptian script was a symbolic affair.

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