ROSETTA STONE

UNCLASSIFIEDThe Rosetta Stone and Its Decipherment*BY LAMBROS D. CALLIMAHOSUnclassifiedAn account of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and of historicalattempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, culminating in theirsuccessful decryption by Jean Frani;ois Champollion.I feel partic;ularly qualified to give this lecture because, as you mightknow-in any case, Security knows-I was born in Egypt, and further-more the Ptolemies were Greeks. The Ptolemy with whom we areprincipally concerned is Ptolemy...