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Meaning of "champollion"
champollion (noun): Champollion refers to a scholar or expert in the field of Egyptology, particularly known for their expertise in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The term is derived from the renowned French scholar Jean-François Champollion, who famously deciphered the Rosetta Stone
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Champollion understood the power of the hieroglyphs.
This was an opportunity Champollion could not pass up.
Champollion was overwhelmed by the grandeur which surrounded him.
There is also a Champollion museum in the village.
Champollion did the seemingly impossible.
The tomb was already known to Champollion.
Champollion was on the verge of the most startling discovery.
It was a journey of many weeks which Champollion recorded in extraordinary detail.
Champollion continued in search of clues hidden in the hieroglyphs.
This was the moment Champollion had dreamt of for years.
Champollion discovered that the hieroglyphics were a simple substitution cipher.
It was the opportunity Champollion had been waiting for all his life.
Champollion proved he could read the code of the pharaohs.
The pharaoh had spoken and Champollion had heard his voice across the millennia.
Champollion was by now very ill.
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Silvestre de Sacy was a contemporary and teacher of Champollion.
Champollion devoted his life to understanding this ancient culture.
Class we have a new Champollion.
Champollion revealed that he had cracked these hidden codes.
It was here Champollion wrote.
Champollion himself never mastered it.
Virtually everything we know about ancient Egypt starts with Champollion.
Champollion was not frightened.
Not everybody is a Champollion.
Champollion was becoming convinced that the hieroglyphs made words.
A new portrait of Champollion.
Champollion has yet to prove that he can read all hieroglyphs.
The city of Grenoble is linked to the story of Champollion and that of Egyptology.
Champollion was deeply frustrated by the lack of material that there was to decipher.
The allegations then arose that Champollion had plagiarized the work of Quatremère.
Champollion had to satisfy his obsession with whatever scraps he could find.
He continued his studies at the Lycée Champollion.
Champollion said that the sphinx became successively the symbol of each of the gods.
The town hosts the Champollion Museum.
Champollion walked these halls and casually read the inscriptions which had mystified everybody else.
It was offered by Egypt to France for the work of Champollion.
Champollion was all set to return to Paris.
It was mentioned by Champollion and Lepsius.
Champollion used the Greek to decipher the hieroglyphics.
In hieroglyphs Let her name be writ Should Champollion find it.
Champollion hoped his growing reputation would be a passport to Egypt.
He interpreted Egyptian hieroglyphics in different ways than Champollion and other Egyptologists.
Champollion had found the tomb of a man called Menofre.
Notebook of Champollion.
But Champollion kept the information to himself in a secret diary.
Figeac, a town of Champollion and writing.
Champollion also carved his name into a pillar at Karnak.
The cabarets of the rue Champollion are now art-house movie theaters.
Champollion reasoned that this probably also meant Ptolemy.
He was the first disciple, a great friend and an associate of Jean-François Champollion.
