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Champollion’s (JFC’s) death – French Decipherer of the Rosetta Stone – underlines one of the age-old killers: Sex, Money, Power, and Fame. Which one could it be? By William Van Zyl.
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Quick sketch – from the author’s notebook: Ramses (left) and a variant of the name Ramses (cartouche – oval shape with symbols on the far right – reading RAMSES). Read the cartouche from top to bottom: Sun god = Ra (also given as Re), m, and ses.
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In 1822 – in a moment of joy and ecstasy – JFC ran breathlessly into his brother’s office and shouted: “Je tiens l’affaire!”, “I found it!” he dropped to the floor and collapsed.
He was unconscious for three days.
JFC was entirely unconscious during those couple of days. It took him some time to return to his senses. For years he’d been feverishly researching and investigating the hieroglyphs of Egypt. Jeanne-Francoise Champollion (1790 to 1832) spent over a decade – almost two decades – deciphering and understanding the meaning behind the Hieroglyphs. The Frenchman had prints from the Rosetta Stone, while the English had the real thing (The British Museum, no date).
In the early 1800s, there was a race between the English and the French to break the code. Champollion was determined to win. As a lecturer at a French University – a great linguist – and master of several languages, he was motivated to decode the ancient writings of the Egyptians.
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