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The Rosetta Stone

By E. A. Wallis Budge

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The Rosetta Stone is a text written by a group of priests in Egypt to honour the Egyptian pharaoh. It lists all of the things that the pharaoh has done that are good for the priests and the people of Egypt. Who deciphered hieroglyphs? Many people worked on deciphering hieroglyphs over several hundred years.

Title Page
The Rosetta Stone
Ancient writings about Hieroglyphics
Post-Antiquity writings on Hieroglyphics
Young and Champollion
How Champollion deciphered the Egyptian Alphabet
Opinions of Egyptologists on Young and Champollion
Translation of the Rosetta Stone