Jean François Champollion (1790-1832): Learn all about the genius who used the inscriptions on the Rosetta stone to successfully translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. The life and work of Champollion have inspired generations of scholars.
This workbook is part of our Biography Workbooks Series. Designed for high school World History and European History students, it is thirteen pages in length and filled with questions and activities alongside the content-rich informational text.
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Answer Key:
- Champollion Figeac
- A - Figeac
- A - a great or heroic deed
- E - to confer or give
- F - to interpret the meaning of
- D - thankful
- B - form of writing that uses pictures or symbols to represent sounds or terms
- Fourier
- Three of the following: Coptic, Hebrew, Persian, Sanskrit
- B - False
- Oriental College of Paris
- They supported Napoleon Bonaparte during his Hundred Days
- Rose Blanc
- E - written words marking an address or dedication to a person
- C - person who studies written languages
- B - object with engravings which are believed to give it power over human beings
- D - rendering of words from one language to another
- A - assiduously
- Ptolemaios and Berenike
- Comparing the names Ptolemy and Cleopatra, he looked for the placement of hieroglyphs that matched sounds in the names
- To make the alphabetic words more comprehensive
- Charles X
- A - arising or occurring after the creator's death
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