On 27 September 1822, French scholar Jean-François Champollion made a groundbreaking announcement that would forever change our understanding of ancient history.
After years of painstaking study, he deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone, a trilingual artifact that had baffled scholars for decades.
Champollion’s method, which compared Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphic scripts, unlocked the mysteries of the ancient Egyptian language, paving the way for modern Egyptology and revealing an entire civilisation’s forgotten history.
