Rescuing Egyptian monuments, a day at Amarna, the latest from Luxor, the Rosetta Stone, and ancient tales of gold…
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Tags: Abu Simbel, Amarna, Hieroglyphics, Luxor, Modern Egypt, Rosetta Stone, Temple of Hatshepsut
This week’s digest is dedicated to the French Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion, who is credited with the translation of the Rosetta Stone, thereby cracking the code of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and opening the mysteries of the ancients for all Egyptologists who followed.
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Tags: Hieroglyphics, Jean-Francois Champollion, Rosetta Stone
Rescuing Egyptian monuments, a day at Amarna, the latest from Luxor, the Rosetta Stone, and ancient tales of gold…
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Abu Simbel, Amarna, Hieroglyphics, Luxor, Modern Egypt, Rosetta Stone, Temple of Hatshepsut