Egyptologist+Jean-Francois+Champollion

A. Egyptologist 1. definition 2. job duties B. Champollion biography (brief) C. Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
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Jean-Francois Champollion(1790-1832) was a French egyptologist. **He was the first one to translate the Rosetta Stone.** He did lots of things before he translated the Rosetta Stone. He studied laguages and they helped him translate it. He had a short life but did man things during it.
 * //An egyptologist is anyone who studies Ancient Egypt.//** Most are speacilized in one part of Egypt. They find artifacts and then study it in lots of details. They use lots of tools to find clues and help lead to other big clues about Ancient Egypt.

Jean- Francois Champollion was born on December 23, 1790 in Figeac. He studied Persian, Ethiopic, Sanshrit, Zend, Pahleri, Greek and Aribic. In 1822 Champollion published a pamplet "Letere a Monsier Bacier". In that same year he translated the Rosetta Stone. In 1826 he became director of the soon-to-be-opened Egyptian Museum at the Louvre in Paris. In that same year Champollion started an Egyptian collections at the Louvre. In 1828-1830 Champollion conducted his only expidition in Egypt. When he returned to Paris in 1831, a professorship in Egyptian history and archaeology was speacially created for him. Later he wrote an Egyptian dictonary and a Egyptian grammer book. He died in Paris on March 4, 1832. Champollion is known as the founding father of Egyptoligy.

T**he Rosetta Stone gave the world the key to the long forgotten language of ancient Egypt. //It was discoverd by a french officer of Napolean's engineering corps//** in 1799. Champollian translated the Rosetta Stone using the greek text as a guide. He would find commen nouns and names that looked the same. From there he used sounds of the letters and slowly made the words make sence and put them together.

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