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September 27, 1822
Jean-François Champollion deciphering the Rosetta Stone on September 27, 1822
For fourteen centuries not one person on earth could read a single hieroglyph. Then a feverish young Frenchman ran through Paris shouting he'd cracked it — and collapsed before he could explain.
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