Champollion and the Mystery of the Hieroglyphs – In 1822, This Gifted Man Deciphered the Writing of the Pharaohs.
An achievement after hundreds of years of scientific trial and error.
In science, some formulas pass to posterity after a brilliant discovery. There is that of Archimedes for his thrust (“Eureka!”) but also that of Jean-François Champollion who, while piercing the mystery of hieroglyphs on September 14, 1822, would have hastened to announce the news to his brother Jacques-Joseph in these terms: “I believe that I hold my b…
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