champollion

     

Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist an orientalist.

Trivia about champollion

  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Luxor, Egypt.) One of the people behind moving the other obelisk to Paris was this decipherer of the Rosetta Stone
  • By age 16, this translator of the Rosetta Stone had mastered 8 ancient languages

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