New Concepts Written by Subramaniam.VSR.Dr Continued from page 1 Visit : www.drvsrs.com/newcons.htm Visit : www.drvsrs.com/drvsrs.htm Rosetta stone Written by Dr. Sherin ElKhawaga Continued from page 1 The representation of a single text of three mentioned script variants enabled French scholar Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832) in 1822 to basically decipher hieroglyphs. Furthermore, with aid of Coptic language (language of Christian descendants of ancient Egyptians), he succeeded to realize phonetic value of hieroglyphs. This proved fact that hieroglyphs do not have only symbolic meaning, but that they also served as a "spoken language". this article is courtesy of www.kingtutshop.com Home of educational kits and handmade crafts. Another British physicist Thomas Young worked on translation of stone with French Egyptologist Jean François Champollion. Thomas Young, English Physicist, was first to prove that elongated ovals or cartouches in hieroglyphic section of stone contained a royal name written phonetically, in this case that of Ptolemy. Jean François Champollion went on to correct and enlarge Young's list of phonetic hieroglyphs and lay foundations of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian language in a paper which was read to Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris in 1822. It was this discovery -- that Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system used a combination of ideograms, phonetic signs, and determinatives -- that provided breakthrough in translation of hieroglyphic writing. And this ability to read ancient hieroglyphs in turn opened door to history of ancient Egypt and gave birth to new discipline of Egyptology. Dr. Sherin ElKhawaga, egyptian radiologist, interested in egyptology.     <Back to Page 1   ImproveHomeLife.com © 2005 Terms of Use