Published in 1823, as Champollion’s work confirmed many of his own results, this book is Thomas Young’s public claim to a share in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. He reviews older theories, explains what he learned from the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian manuscripts, discusses the French collections, and translates Greek papyri brought from Egypt by George Grey.
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