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This document discusses the history of attempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs from antiquity up until their full decipherment in the 1820s. Early attempts like those of Horapollo in the 5th century CE were incorrect in interpreting hieroglyphs symbolically rather than phonetic. The Rosetta Stone, with its parallel Greek and Egyptian texts, provided crucial evidence allowing Champollion and others in the early 19th century to correctly decipher that hieroglyphs used logographic, phonetic, and semantic ele

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