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Champollion, Jean François (1790–1832)

French linguist and historian regarded as the "father of Egyptology." Professor of history at Grenoble University (1809–1816), he was the first to effectively decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, a result of his research on the Rosetta Stone.




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