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Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts

  • ... that after making a breakthrough in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Jean-François Champollion cried "I've done it!" and collapsed in a faint that lasted days? Source: "…Jean-François ran from his house in the Rue Mazarine to the nearby Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, flung a bundle of drawings down onto a desk in Jacques-Joseph's office, and cried: 'Je tiens mon affaire!' ('I've done it!')—his own version of Archimedes' cry 'Eureka!' But before he could explain what he had done, he collapsed on the floor in a dead faint. For an instant, his brother feared that he was dead. Taken home to rest, Champollion apparently did not revive until evening-time five days later…" (Cracking the Egyptian Code [2012] by Andrew Robinson, p. 142)

5x expanded by A. Parrot (talk). Self-nominated at 01:12, 27 August 2019 (UTC).

  • Symbol confirmed.svg Article has been 5x expanded recently enough, no copyvio, the source supports the content of the hook, and the source is cited in the article after the relevant passage. Article looks really well-done and interesting. Sure you don't want to add a picture? Enwebb (talk) 15:36, 30 August 2019 (UTC)