Title: Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs
Content: Bin Abubekr Bin Wahishih", contributing to the complete decipherment of hieroglyphs. The study of hieroglyphs continued centuries later, when various modern scholars attempted to decipher the glyphs, notably Johannes Goropius Becanus in the 16th century, Athanasius Kircher in the 17th, and Silvestre de Sacy, Johan David Åkerblad and Thomas Young in the early 19th century, each making one important step toward the solution but failing to find it. Young made the crucial breakthrough in 1814 when studying the Rosetta Stone. Guessing that hieroglyphs surrounded by a loop were of greater importance, such as representing a pharaoh's name, he was able

Title: Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs
Content: Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs The decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs was gradually achieved during the early 19th century. The most helpful clue was supplied by the discovery in 1799 of the Rosetta Stone, an inscription in three scripts. Building on work by several other scholars, notably Thomas Young, the breakthrough to decipherment was made by Jean-François Champollion. The successful decipherment was preceded by a long period during which hieroglyphs were wrongly believed in Europe to be a purely ideographic script. In the 5th century appeared the "Hieroglyphica" of Horapollo, a spurious explanation of almost 200 glyphs. Authoritative yet largely false, the

Title: Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs
Content: in the same word." He had applied Young's approach to an obelisk inscribed in Greek and hieroglyphics and correlated sound values to individual glyphs by applying comparisons to the names Ptolemy and Cleopatra. An important assumption made by Champollion was that certain sounds (such as 't') could be represented by two glyphs, just as they are in English with different letters (such as the hard 'c' and 'k'). He then began to study other inscriptions, flush with this discovery. Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs The decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs was gradually achieved during the early 19th century. The most helpful clue

Title: Egyptian hieroglyphs
Content: plenty of material for falsifiable studies in translation was suddenly available. In the early 19th century, scholars such as Silvestre de Sacy, Johan David Åkerblad, and Thomas Young studied the inscriptions on the stone, and were able to make some headway. Finally, Jean-François Champollion made the complete decipherment by the 1820s. In his "Lettre à M. Dacier" (1822), he wrote: 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. Hieroglyphs survive today in two forms: directly, through half a dozen Demotic

Title: Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs
Content: to discover the phonetics of the corresponding hieroglyphs by comparing the three different scripts. After identifying many of the hieroglyphs' sound values, he set aside his work for reasons not fully understood. Athanasius Kircher, a student of Coptic and Arabic, had read Ibn Wahshiyya's work in the 17th century and continued the study of hieroglyphs from where Ibn Wahshiyya had left off. Kircher further developed the notion that the last stage of Egyptian could be related to the earlier Egyptian stages. Because he was not able to transliterate or translate hieroglyphs, however, he could not prove this notion. The discovery

Question: What was the name of the basalt slab that became the key for deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Answer: Rosetta Stone