Thomas Young made a more successful attempt at deciphering, but it would take the efforts of French linguist Jean Francois Champollion to finish it, using the demotic script as a guide.
Early analyses were attempted by Silvestre de Sacy and Johan David Akerblad. It states that priests "should not pay their tax on becoming priests" and "renounced the two-thirds share of linen of the fine linen that used to be made in the temples for the Treasury". Discovered in the town of Rashid, it discusses a desire to improve conditions for the people and the gratitude exclaimed by the priests. Thomas Young made a more successful attempt at deciphering, but it would take the efforts of French linguist Jean Francois Champollion to finish it, using the demotic script as a guide. Chiefly concerned with King Ptolemy V and discovered by Napoleon's Egyptian expedition, FTP, what item allowed comprehension of Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Early analyses were attempted by Silvestre de Sacy and Johan David Akerblad.
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