What year did Champollion publish his first breakthrough?
1822
1810
1830
1840
Answer
In 1822, Jean-François Champollion made his first breakthrough in deciphering the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. He began by studying the Rosetta Stone, which contained the same text written in three different scripts: hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek. By comparing the Greek text with the other two, Champollion was able to identify the phonetic values of some of the hieroglyphs.
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