Monday, May 16, 2011

Let's Unlock our Memories

Finally, Jean-François Champollion made the complete decipherment by the 1820s:

It is a complex system, writing figurative, symbolic, and phonetic all at once, in the same text, the same phrase, I would almost say in the same word.[15]

^ Jean-François Champollion,Letter to M. Dacier, September 27, 1822