Monday, December 14, 2009

Jean-Francois Champollion


This guy that just happened to break the code wasn't just some guy off the streets. He had already learned 11 different languages before breaking the code on the Rosetta Stone. He had started working on the rosetta stone in 1808, he was still a teenager. In 1822, he finally finished it and found out what it said. It took him 14 years to break it, you might think that that is a long time, but it wasn't people back then would spend there whole careers to crack the code.


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