Science: Archaeology: Archaeologists: Egyptologists: Champollion, Jean Franois

An illustrated biography from Kmt of the Frenchman who pioneered decipherment of the previously unreadable ancient scripts of Egypt.

A biography by Elizabeth Jordan-Prince for Minnesota University's Emuseum of the Frenchman acknowledged as the father of modern Egyptology. Includes references and links.

A biography from the Catholic Encyclopedia of the French Orientalist renowned for deciphering hieroglyphics through the triple inscription on the Rosetta Stone.