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Champollion

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Champollion
Jean François . 1790--1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone


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Champollion deciphered the wrinkled granite hieroglyphics.
What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us, that we may turn over a new leaf at last?
The fact teaches him how Belus was worshipped and how the Pyramids were built, better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile.
 
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