Champollion
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
That etched fragment, the Rosetta Stone, allowed the French researcher Jean-François Champollion to decipher the writings of the ancient Egyptians two decades later — and open the doors to a world of knowledge and discovery.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
Bearing inscriptions of the same text in Hieroglyphs, Demotic and Ancient Greek, it was used by Frenchman Jean-Francois Champollion to decipher Hieroglyphs from 1822, opening up understanding of ancient Egyptian language and culture.
From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2022
In fact, Champollion didn’t live to see it erected on the Place de la Concorde.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
Champollion was the first curator of the Louvre’s Egyptian collections.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
Champollion resisted the idea of hieroglyphs as pictorial metaphors.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
