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

In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found in Egypt. The Rosetta Stone had writing from ancient Egyptian, hieroglyphs, and ancient Greek on it. Since ancient Greek was easy enough to translate into modern language, they were able to read the Egyptian. They used those to develop a system to understand the hieroglyphs on the Stone. Because of that, the hieroglyphics on pyramids and artwork were able to be translated and understood.

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