History & Heritage

Cracking the Hieroglyph Code

How the Rosetta Stone helped scholars learn to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs again.

B29 min

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1For many long centuries, no one in the world could read Egyptian hieroglyphs.

2The beautiful picture writing covered temple walls, but its meaning was lost.

3Everything changed when soldiers found a dark stone near the town of Rosetta.

4The stone carried the same message in three different kinds of writing.

5One of them was ancient Greek, a language which scholars could still read.

6A young French scholar named Champollion spent many patient years comparing the texts.

7He realised that some of the pictures stood for sounds, not for whole words.

8In the end, he announced that he had cracked the ancient code.

9Suddenly, the silent voices of the pharaohs could speak to us again.

10Today, the Rosetta Stone sits proudly in a famous museum in London.

11It reminds us that one small discovery can unlock a whole civilisation.

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