Episode 2 of 3
Announcement to the Académie
- When
- 27 September 1822
- Where
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Champollion presented his decipherment findings to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris, marking the formal announcement of his success.
On 27 September 1822, Champollion exhibited a draft containing eight pages of text to a packed room at the Académie. This presentation, known as the Lettre à M. Dacier, outlined his systematic decipherment of hieroglyphs, largely based on the Rosetta Stone, confirming the phonetic nature of the script.
Sources
- Lettre à M. Dacier Wikipedia, revision of 2023-09-27
- Rosetta Stone Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-21
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