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  1. Egyptian Hieroglyphs

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    Decipherment and Modern Study
    The knowledge of reading hieroglyphs was lost entirely by the 5th century CE. The eventual decipherment was achieved in 1822 by Jean-François Champollion through the comparative study of bilingual texts, most notably the Rosetta Stone. Champollion demonstrated that the system was not purely symbolic but a complex fusion of phonetic and semantic elements.
    Modern epigraphers often utilize standardized transliteration schemes to represent the consonantal framework of Egyptian words.