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Jed Z. Buchwald, « Thomas Young and the Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs », Annuaire du Collège de France, ID : 10.4000/annuaire-cdf.12658
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The decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs has captured the interest and fascination of both scholars and the public for nearly two centuries. The discovery of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleon’s force in Egypt, the drama of its ceding to the British and eventual transfer to the British Museum, followed two decades later by the decipherment of the scripts are perhaps the most widely known and written about events in the history of European engagement with antiquity. The first accounts of the deciph...