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The 12 pages that link to Jean-François Champollion, each with the reason it gives.

• Egyptian hieroglyphsRelated: His analysis of royal names helped demonstrate the script’s phonetic signs.

• Ancient EgyptRelated: His decipherment opened written Egyptian sources to modern historical study.

• Rosetta StoneRelated: His 1822 decipherment established how the stone’s scripts could be compared.

• EgyptologyRelated: His decipherment made sustained scholarly reading of ancient Egyptian texts possible.

• EgyptomaniaRelated: His breakthrough turned Egyptian writing into a readable historical record.

• Luxor TempleRelated: His work helped establish the historical framework used to interpret Egypt’s monumental inscriptions.

• Ancient Egyptian literatureRelated: His decipherment made ancient Egyptian literary manuscripts accessible to modern scholarship.

• Egyptian languageRelated: His work connected hieroglyphic signs with Egyptian language and Coptic.

• Athanasius KircherCompared with: Champollion’s successful decipherment corrected the symbolic readings Kircher had proposed.

• Ancient historyRelated: His decipherment opened a vast body of Egyptian written evidence to historical study.

• Giovanni BelzoniRelated: The inscriptions on an obelisk associated with Belzoni’s collecting aided Champollion’s work.

• Semitic studiesRelated: The decipherment expanded access to ancient Near Eastern texts studied alongside Semitic sources.