Transcription: By 300 BC, Egyptians were writing documents in Greek rather than in hieroglyphs. By 450 AD, no one could read or write in hieroglyphs. For more than 1,000 years, people looked at hieroglyphs and wondered what they said. In 1799, Napoleon's soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone. It had the same message written in three ways, Greek, hieroglyphs, and Demotic. Demotic was a fast way of writing Egyptian. Because people knew how to read Greek, the Rosetta Stone was the key to learning to read hieroglyphs. Jean-François Champollion was the first scholar to break the code. In 1822, he translated seven ...
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