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The decipherment of the hieroglyphs — The reading of the Lettre à M. Dacier before the Académie des inscriptions, 27 September 1822
Thirteen days after crying « Je tiens l’affaire » in his brother’s office, Champollion set out before the Académie des inscriptions the alphabet of the phonetic hieroglyphs. The stele found by Bonaparte’s soldiers twenty-three years earlier had served, but less than the documentation he had assembled; he thus outpaced his English rival, the physicist Thomas Young. (Editorial synthesis)
The decipherment of the hieroglyphs took place on 27 September 1822. (source: INHA)
The decipherment of the hieroglyphs ended in the alphabet of the phonetic hieroglyphs, set out before the Académie. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
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