Decoding Egyptian hieroglyphs (the Rosetta Stone, Champollion, and Young)

How did Champollion figure out hieroglyphic writing where others had failed? Find out in this video.

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Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing had not been written or understood for well over a thousand years when Jean-Francois Champollion figured out the key to understanding ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

How did Champollion succeed where others had failed? In this video, we discuss the advances made before Champollion and what he did that was different, which held the long-sought-after key to a method for decoding Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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An engaging read about Champollion, his brother, and other scholars who were trying to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in the nineteenth century (and before).

A wonderful overview of the Rosetta Stone, decipherment of hieroglyphs, and an introduction to how hieroglyphs (and other ancient Egyptian scripts) actually work.

This is a catalog that accompanied a museum exhibit, so it also includes many black and white and some color photographs of ancient Egyptian objects and the people involved in decipherment.

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[HellHammerOfDoom]

What strange winds has brought me to this charming parts of woods. Kudos!

[lilacollamore]

Great video, thank you. The quote at the end regarding Young vs Champollion is perfect.

[duanebarry]

Thank you for the video. This is a more detailed explanation that is usually presented where the Rosetta Stone is used to match names in cartouches with names in Greek and then suddenly hieroglyphic writing is completely understood.

[hxhfd]

As a Chinese, fortunately we use Chinese characters for more than 3000 years continuously. So it's not that difficult to decipher our oracle bone scripts. Any Chinese students who major in Chinese language and literature can read the literatures from Qin dynasty and Han dynasty, 2000 years ago.

[jeffczermanski]

Wow. I can't believe I just found this channel. Sorry. Keep it up. Thank you.
It really shows how powerful 'the algorithm' is. If you aren't searching the exact right terms, you could miss a great channel.

[mjb]

You are very clear. Thanks for this course.

[yvonne]

There is only a way to decipher the hieroglyphs. You need two instruments:
(1) the symbolic algorithm,
(2) the Albanian Language.

References:
1. The mesianic role of the Albanian Language by Petro Zheji
2. Albanian and Sanskrit Language by Petro Zheji
3. Thoth spoke Albanian by Giuseppe Catapano.

[OeHomestead]

I saw the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum some 20 years ago, and bought a book called "Cracking Codes - The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment" by Richard Parkinson. It's well worth a read if you're interested in the details around how they managed to decipher the hieroglyphs.

[nordholz]

Good video! I'd like to know, why the "bread loaf" does not stand for "T" in the second name?

[WarLife]

BTW, It was a Muslim 1st who managed to decode half of he letters (which is extremely hard) only to be continued by this man 1000 years later

[pdkovacs]

Excellent video, very much to the point! Thank you for creating it! 🙏

[thoughtsbright]

How do I translate from transliteration to english.

[atifbangash]

I would like to know why a certain symbol was used for a certain sound. It catches my curiosity. What were the Egyptians thinking

[williekatz]

Thanks for the very informative video. However, I have heard before that the Egyptian written language, hieroglyphics, is only in consonants. You repeated this in the video but then continued to show vowels (example the Cleopatra translation.) Please explain.

[enfoqueabstracto]

Just discovered your channel and I am so thankful to life that you dedicate your time to share such enlightening information! Do you know the meaning of the Sacred Scarab often placed in the middle or top of the hieroglyphics, thank you!

[delatorrecaleb]

Are there hieroglyphs of the pyramids?

[junjieromero]

So the first and second inscriptions of rosetta stone is what about ? What does it means ?

[IndianHeathen]

Fantastic video! Where can I find more information about Manetho?

[picterpreterearth]

No one has correctly translated the hieroglyphs from Egypt. No one could ever speak hieroglyph because it is not a phonetic language in any respect.
The glyphs are pictographic ideograms, each one conveying a lot of information relevant to the subject.
It is very simple to learn and understand as it was made to convey information, concisely and unambiguously. It was designed so that language didn’t matter to the reader, just understanding of what pictures are portraying.
An eight-year-old can grasp the concepts of the Hieroglyphs in five minutes.
Once read correctly, Egypt becomes a very different proposition and is important for humanity to know, which is why it is there.
Why we have accepted the obvious fraud that is ancient Egypt is mind-boggling and what is more troubling is that the fraud is endemic across science.
When you find out how to read the glyphs it is so obvious that it is almost embarrassing to admit we believed something else. There is no way for science to debunk its way out of the truth which imperils many a mighty institution and tightly held paradigms about who we are and where we came from.

[RavenRaven-selr]

I think we have an in built arrogance about Western Civilisation. Which is the thinking are speech and writing has to be more advanced. After all what’s going to be left if all human knowledge is simply moved to the cloud. Thanks 👍