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Two centuries ago this week, French linguist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had cracked the code of hieroglyphics, the ancient Egyptian writing system that had puzzled scholars for centuries.…
From its illustrious, heavenly past, today the Coptic language has been largely denigrated to pockets of practice. But embers of the language's revival burn in the diaspora, where second and third-generation Coptics hope to rekindle their heritage.
The Rosetta Stone a slab of granitoid featuring a written decree from 196 B.C. is one of the most helpful tools scholars and historians have uncovered to decode ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.