How Did They Decipher the Rosetta Stone

Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion was able to decipher the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

Who deciphered the Rosetta Stone and how was it done?

While Akerblad made important discoveries about the Rosetta Stone as early as 1802, the credit for the decipherment of the Demotic and Egyptian hieroglyphic texts goes to two scholars: Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion.

How was the Egyptian language deciphered?

The ancient Egyptians’ language had archaeologists baffled until the hieroglyphs were carefully deciphered using the Rosetta Stone. The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb wouldn’t happen for another century but in 1821 in Piccadilly, London, an exhibition about ancient Egypt opened.