Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin
He began with another cartouche from the same inscription and numbered each of the hieroglyphs in it
of the nine symbols, Champollion already knew numbers 1,2,4,6,7, and 8. When he lined up all the numbers and put
the corresponding letters beneath them, he got the following arrangement
123456789
AL SE TR
Immediately Champollion thought of the one Greek leader whose name might be identified with this particular
combination of letters. It was Alexander the Great, spelled "Alexandros" in Greek, and apparently represented as
"Alksentrs" in hieroglyphs
Champollion filled in the gaps in the arrangement
113 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
ALKSENTRS
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Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin
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