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Der Stein von Rosetta

Eine kurze Geschichte über...

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Decipherment Race and Champollion’s Breakthrough

Notes on English ownership inscriptions, the scholarly rivalry (Thomas Young vs. Champollion), Champollion’s use of Coptic, his 1822 breakthrough, and the birth of modern Egyptology and the stone’s museum life.

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