Jean Fran? French historian and linguist ois Champollion was the first scholar to understand the hieroglyphic structure of ancient Egypt and decipher the Rosetta Stone. Known as "the father of Egyptology".
Champollion is proficient in Greek and Coptic. The top and most incomplete part of the Rosetta Stone is written in hieroglyphics, with an Egyptian character named Demotic (meaning popular) in the middle and ancient Greek characters below. According to Greek, scholars preliminarily concluded that this stone tablet was written by royal decree. At first, scholars focused on the popular style, because it was more complete than hieroglyphics and more like letters. This is a hieroglyphic sketch, which is developed on the basis of an Egyptian sketch called Heiratic. The understanding of popular style began with Desai, a French linguist, who recognized the symbols representing Ptolemy and Alexander and established a connection between these symbols and pronunciation. Johann Akerblad, a former Swedish diplomat, used Coptic knowledge when studying Rosetta Stone. Copts were early Christians in Egypt. Coptic was first used in the 4th century for the churches they built. Coptic uses Greek letters, and there are seven other popular letters. With the help of Coptic, John Akbrad learned about "love", "church" and "Greece". So far, it has been proved that popular styles are not only phonetic symbols, but also translatable. British physicist Thomas Young proved the wave of light, and he was determined to read the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta stone. He believes that it is impossible to express foreigners' names with pictographs, because pictographs are based on established languages, so foreigners' names can only be expressed in pinyin. There is a vortex symbol in hieroglyphics, which he thinks is the correct name for non-Egyptians, such as Ptolemy and Alexander. His views on this matter had a great influence, and Yang correctly found out the symbol representing Ptolemy. Champollion, a Frenchman, a student of Desai Xi, read Yang's viewpoint in 18 19. He mastered many oriental languages at an early age and wrote an undergraduate Pute dictionary. Champollion realized that Yang proved that all hieroglyphs have sounds, not just vortex symbols. Champollion identified Cleopatra and Alexander through textual research, which proved that Ptolemy identified by Yang was correct. Champollion published his own results and continued his research. 1822, a new inscription found in a temple on the Nile was sent to Europe, and champollion recognized the name of the Pharaoh who built the temple-Ramses. With his knowledge of Coptic, champollion translated hieroglyphics, enabling people to read and understand this ancient writing.