Between the years of 1806 and 1822 linguists spent restless hours trying to decipher the the mystery of hieroglyphics. Well the answer finally came, the tool of Coptic. The tool of Coptic is the last stage in the Egyptian language, its used by Christians and written in Greek Characters. They assigned phonetic values to signs and compared them to others. You know, to me this sounds like WAY to much work just to decipher some language that hardly exists now! I mean whats the point of trying to find out what something means if no one will ever use it again? That's just my thought. But the people who deciphered must of had longer patience. There were two people in particular who helped decipher they spent way to many hours of their lives staring at a rock!
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