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1. Egyptian Hieroglyphs

   Linked via "Rosetta Stone"

   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.