# Scribes and the Rosetta Stone

Know that scribes were specially trained people who could read and write hieroglyphs, that the Rosetta Stone — a slab with the same text in three scripts — was the key to cracking the hieroglyphic code, and that Jean-François Champollion used it to decipher hieroglyphs in 1822 after centuries of mystery

Builds on: Egyptian Social Hierarchy (soft, https://ai.page/c/egyptian-social-hierarchy/en.md), Knowing all letters (soft, https://ai.page/c/knowing-all-letters/en.md), Hieroglyphs and Papyrus (hard, https://ai.page/c/hieroglyphs-and-papyrus/en.md)

Concept id: scribes-and-the-rosetta-stone. Subject: history. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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