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DESCRIPTION – Article: 1337 Words with many images and a sketch from the author’s notebook.
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https://fivehousepublishing.com/2022/04/18/champollions-jfcs-death-french-decipherer-of-the-rosetta-stone-underlines-one-of-the-age-old-killers-sex-money-power-and-fame-which-one-could-it-be/
You are probably thinking: ‘Where is the writer going with this?’ Allow me to convey the crux of the matter.
I am considering the question: Did the obsession to be famous, to be the first person to decipher the hieroglyphs, and consequently be in the history books of the world as the famous person who solved one of the most intriguing secrets of all times, kill Champollion in the process?
Of the many books on Money, Sex, and Power, it is clear that these three things – in an obsessive way – will destroy any person. Marriages were destroyed, families ruined, suicides left families heartbroken, loved ones incarcerated, and all the tragedies associated with these three destroyers of human lives are evident throughout the ages. It is shocking, devastating, and sad.
Back to Champollion. His first breakthrough came when he visited the Coptic Church in France. The sounds – the chanting in the church – confirmed what he believed. He was convinced that the hieroglyphs were a language. He visualised that the Coptic chant in church represented the way the Egyptians spoke. According to JFC, he believed that though Egyptians recorded their language in the hieroglyphic form, it sounded like the Coptic language. On the contrary, the English scientist Tomas Young believed that it was only symbols. Thomas Young (1773–1829), the well-known English physicist, was the first to show that some of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name, that of Ptolemy. The race was on!
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In 1822 – in a moment of joy and ecstasy – JFC ran breathlessly into his brother’s office and shouted: “Je tiens l’affaire!”, “I found it!” he dropped to the floor and collapsed.
He was unconscious for three days.
JFC was entirely unconscious during those couple of days. It took him some time to return to his senses. For years he’d been feverishly researching and investigating the hieroglyphs of Egypt. Jeanne-Francoise Champollion (1790–1832) spent over a decade – almost two decades – deciphering and understanding the meaning behind the Hieroglyphs. The Frenchman had prints from the Rosetta Stone, while the English had the real thing (The British Museum, n.d).
In the early 1800s, there was a race between the English and the French to break the code. Champollion was determined to win. As a lecturer at a French University – a great linguist – and master of several languages, he was motivated to decode the ancient writings of the Egyptians. 
Quick sketch – from the author’s notebook: Ramses (left) and a variant of the name Ramses (cartouche – oval shape with symbols on the far right – reading RAMSES). Read the cartouche from top to bottom: Sun god = Ra (also given as Re), m, and ses.
