Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

The British Museum in London has been home to the iconic Rosetta Stone, from which Young deduced the hieroglyphic alphabet and Champollion cracked the code, since 1802. It is also home to a ...

♪♪ -[ Speaking French ] -At the beginning of our era, the Egyptians abandoned the hieroglyphic system and transcribed their language using the Greek alphabet. That's what we call Coptic.

From there they started work on a Demotic alphabet. The British Egyptologist Thomas Young then followed Silvestre de Sacy’s advice to deduce the phonetic hieroglyphic characters describing the ...

The accepted story is that the first alphabet developed in the Sinai Peninsula around 1,900 B.C., an innovation on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but a discovery in a tomb in Syria challenges that narrative.

With the help of the Rosetta Stone, Jean-Francois Champollion created an alphabet of phonetic hieroglyphs. Other scholars were able to use it to translate the inscription completely.