The structure of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the story of how they were deciphered using the Rosetta Stone.
The hieroglyphs used by the ancient Egyptians look like simple drawings, but they were actually part of a highly complex writing system.These characters could represent actual physical objects, or they could represent phonetic sounds, much like the letters in an alphabet.Shrouded in mystery for centuries, the secret of this ancient script was finally unlocked with the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, which featured the same text written in three different scripts.The brilliant scholar Jean-François Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs by comparing them with Greek, finally revealing the mysterious history of ancient Egypt to the world.▶ Read interactively