'How We Decoded The Hieroglyphs Of Ancient Egypt' In this clip from the History Hit documentary 'The Story of Egyptology', Dr Chris Naunton explores how 18th century scholars worked frantically to ...

A French Egyptologist says he has deciphered secret messages engraved on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk built during the reign of Ramses II. The 75-foot-tall stone structure once loomed outside a ...

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On this day in 1822, an ”over-the-top, histrionic, melodramatic figure,” Jean-François Champollion, announced his decipherment of the Rosetta Stone, a stele from Ptolemaic Egypt inscribed with a ...