A brilliant English physicist and polymath, Thomas Young, correctly worked out that a group of hieroglyphs repeated several times on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name - that of ...

Dr Gamal was speaking on the 200th anniversary of the painstaking deciphering of the stone’s text, first attempted by English physicist Thomas Young (1773-1829).

The stone’s three blocks of alternating script provided the key to deciphering hieroglyphs ... British polymath Thomas Young made a major breakthrough when he discovered the significance ...

In 1799, Napoleon's troops found a stone covered with the same inscription in three languages, including Greek and Egyptian. The discovery led to the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics (Greek ...

A brilliant English physicist and polymath, Thomas Young, correctly worked out that a group of hieroglyphs repeated several times on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name - that of ...