Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832). French founder of Egyptology. Portrait. He used the Rosetta stone to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Image

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Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832). French founder of Egyptology. Portrait. He used the Rosetta stone to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Image taken from Les Deux Champollion. Leur vie et leurs oeuvres etude complete de biographie et de bibliographie, etc. With portraits, including one of the Originally published in Grenoble, 1887.

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