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Jean-François Champollion | |
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Born | 23 December 1790 Fijac, France |
Died | 4 March 1832 Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Field of study | Egyptology |
Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French Egyptologist. In 1822, he became the first European to learn how to read the ancient Egyptian language.[1]
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- ↑ Grigory Bongard-Levin, Boris Piotrovsky (1988). Ancient Civilisations of East and West. https://archive.org/details/ancientciveastwest/mode/1up.