Friday, September 22, 2006
This Day in Mid 19th Century History
On this day in 1822, Jean-Francois Champollion's letter is read to the French Academy in which he declares he has, with the help of the Rosetta Stone (discovered by French soldiers in 1799), successfully translated Egyptian hieroglyphics, thus opening up the Egyptian civilization to archeological study.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:30 AM 
