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Video title:  2022 marks 200 years since Jean Francois champagne famously cracked the code he deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs now to mark this huge anniversary the British museum have opened a new exhibition taking you through the story of this significant breakthrough and today I received special access to come and have a look at it earlier this year I visited Egypt to see some of its most stunning ancient sites up close looking at individual hieroglyphs and the amazing information they have revealed about this land's distant past ever since I've been Keen to learn more about how these symbols were deciphered it's an incredible story that the British museum tells in their newest exhibition from ancient papyri to Medieval Arab manuscripts the exhibition is filled with wonderful objects that each have their own story to tell and right at its heart is one of the world's most famous artifacts the Rosetta Stone the great Keystone of it all curator Dr Elona Rogowski is going to tell me more Elona first off it's absolutely wonderful to be here and to see such an incredible object so well up close in your new exhibition but first off we've all heard the name Rosetta Stone but what exactly is it the Rosetta Stone is estila that was probably set up in the temple the text described on it is a Priestly decree that was issued in on the set on the 27th of March 196 BC by a council of priests who come together in the city of Memphis and the King following me the fifth comes to Memphis to join the priests on this occasion