Egyptian hieroglyphs
Scholars had assumed hieroglyphs were pure symbols. Champollion showed they mix sound signs with meaning signs, using Coptic, the descendant of Egyptian, as a key. Thomas Young had made progress on the names before him.
Evidence tier V3 is the import default for a result the curation records as settled in the published record. No formal proof or certificate is attached to this page yet.
Closed 1822, Jean-François Champollion, with the Rosetta Stone.
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