A new Paris exhibition is celebrating Jean-François Champollion, the French decipherer of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century and one of the founding figures of modern Egyptology, writes David TresilianFor more on the Bibliothèque nationale de France's exhibition celebrating Champollion and the bicentennial of his decipherment of hieroglyphic (and demotic) Egyptian, see here.
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