How were ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs eventually translated into modern languages like English?

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How were ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs eventually translated into modern languages like English?

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Answer 1

The translation started with the Rosetta stone:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone

It has a decree written in ancient Egyptian (hieroglyphic script and Demotic script) and ancient Greek.

From that, more and more hieroglyphs made sense, and other bilingual documents were found.

And from Greek, translation to other languages is easier.