Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion (1790 – 1832) was a French scholar, philologist and orientalist as well as the decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
==Biography==
A student of oriental languages, particularly and , at the esteemed , Champollion showed exemplary linguistic talent and began to learn . At the young age of eighteen, he was appointed professor of history at the , due to his proficiency as a scholar.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Database: Jean-François Champollion
After the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte took the Rosetta Stone from Egypt in 1799, Champollion acquired a copy of the stone's transcripts. He suggested that the hieroglyphs displayed on it consisted of both ideograms, expressing ideas, and phonograms, expressing sounds. Starting in 1820, Champollion eventually deciphered the hieroglyphs, and was able to unveil a previously unknown part of Egyptian history. Champollion compiled his research on the ancient language in his autographical manuscript, La Grammaire égyptienne.Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt – Jean-François Champollion: "Complex Writing"
At some point, Champollion became an ally of the Parisian Brotherhood of Assassins. When the Templars obtained a rubbed transfer of the missing section of the Rosetta Stone, he warned the Assassins that the rubbing contained sensitive information on the Brotherhood. The Templars split the rubbing into three parts and scattered them around the Luxembourg Gardens, where they were kept under guard.Assassin's Creed: Unity – An Engaging Egyptologist
Intent on stealing the rubbing before the Templars could translate it, the Assassin Council sent Arno Dorian to do so. Knowing the locations of the rubbing parts, Champollion directed Arno to them. While Champollion distracted the Templar guards, the Assassin was able to recover each part of the rubbing.
==Gallery==
ACO_DT_-_Jean_Francois_Champollion.jpg|Discovery Tour image of Jean-François Champollion
ACO DT - Jean Francois Champollion hieroglyphs.jpg|Champollion's research in La Grammaire égyptienne
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Unity 
*Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt 
==References==
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