Portrait of Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832), French historian, linguist, and Egyptologist, 19th century. Founder of scientific Egyptology. I decipher the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone, the key to understanding the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt. Old 19th century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1880

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