Take an in-depth look at the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, focusing on the Rosetta Stone and the pivotal race between scholars Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young in the early 19th century. The film, which includes special access to a British Museum exhibition, explains how the stone's trilingual text (hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek) provided the key to unlocking 2,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting that the quest to understand the ancient language actually began centuries earlier with the work of Arab scholars.
From Hieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt, Series 01, Episode 01
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