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Behind the decipherment of ancient inscriptions lies a tradition of some one hundred and fifty years. The two momentous triumphs in this field are linked with the names of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, the brilliant German schoolmaster, and Jean-Francois Champollion, the child prodigy who at sixteen already knew eight languages. In both cases one element in the script was already known. For ...