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Moby-Dick REFERENCES. Carlylet encyclopedia topics. Moby-Dick ASTROLOGY. Moby-Dick CRITICISM. Moby-Dick ETYMOLOGY. Moby-Dick CHAPTERS. Melville BOOKS. Moby-Dick SOURCES. Moby-Dick>PHILOSOPHY. Moby-Dick>ALCHEMY. Discussions - Ishmailites. The Rosetta Stone: Young and Champollion. Sacred Texts Egypt Index Previous Next The Rosetta Stone, by E.A.W.

The Rosetta Stone: Young and Champollion

Budge, [1893], at sacred-texts.com Young and Champollion.Here naturally comes an account of the labours of Young and Champollion, two men who stand out pre-eminently as the true discoverers of the right method of decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics. As much has been written on the works of these savants, and as some have tried to show that the whole merit of the discovery belongs to Young, and others that it belongs to Champollion, it will not be out of place here to make a plain statement of facts, drawn from the best sources, and to give the opinions of the most eminent Egyptologists on this point; a few details concerning the lives of these remarkable men must, however, be first given. Dr.

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