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Jean Francois Champollion

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Noun1.Jean Francois Champollion - Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)Jean Francois Champollion - Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)
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The fact it was written in three languages allowed French scholar Jean Francois Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics for the first time.
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It was from the lithographic drawing of this stone that thirty-two years later hieroglyphs were deciphered by Jean Francois Champollion.
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