Who Discovered Hieroglyphic Writing

Jean-François ChampollionDied4 March 1832 (aged 41) Paris, FranceAlma materCollège de France Institut national des langues et civilisations orientalesKnown forDecipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphsSpouse(s)Rosine Blanc

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Egyptian hieroglyphsDirectionright-to-left scriptLanguagesEgyptian languageRelated scriptsParent systems(Proto-writing) Egyptian hieroglyphs

What was hieroglyphic writing?

hieroglyphic writing, system that employs characters in the form of pictures. Those individual signs, called hieroglyphs, may be read either as pictures, as symbols for objects, or as symbols for sounds. … Because of their pictorial form, hieroglyphs were difficult to write and were used only for monument inscriptions.