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Cham⋅pol⋅lion

  [shahn-paw-lyawn]
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–noun
Jean Fran⋅çois  [zhahn frahn-swa] , 1790–1832, French Egyptologist.
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Cham·pol·lion   (shäɴ-pô-lyôɴ')   
French Egyptologist. Working from the Rosetta stone, he became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1821).
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