Jean-François Champollion announces his success in deciphering…

September 1822 CE

Jean-François Champollion announces his success in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, using the Rosetta Stone, in a letter of  September 27, 1822, to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris (based on the work of Thomas Young).

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