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In 1822, after 15 years of research, Jean-François Champollion cracked the hieroglyphs, the ancient Egyptian code that had fooled scholars for years, revealing 1,500 years of history to the world. Thanks to his hard work, the mysterious symbols carved in stone finally took on meaning. In this edition of France in Focus we follow in the footsteps of the French historian and philologist, who was also the first head of the Egyptian antiquities department at the Louvre Museum.
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