Named for the Frenchman who gave Egypt back the ability to read its own past.
Jean-François Champollion announced in 1822 that he had cracked the hieroglyphic script, using the Rosetta Stone to unlock three thousand years of silence. Fittingly, the Cairo street bearing his name runs close to the Egyptian Museum, where the civilisation he learned to read is now displayed.
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