Jean Francois Champollion, French historian, linguist and Egyptologist, 19th century. Champollion (1790-1832) is regarded as the founder of scientific Egyptology. In 1822-1824 he worked on deciphering the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone, the key to understanding Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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