Rosetta Stone

However according to many other sources, prominently French, there is more credit given to the French linguist Jean-Francois Champollion who worked on the stone for over 14 years Conversely there was little mentioned about Johan David Akerblad in 1802, who was the first person to make progress in identifying a few of the phonetic letters in the demotic section of the text, along with French scholar A.I. Silvestre de Sacy. Hence in retrospect it is at least fair to say that during these times scholars used each others hypothesis' to finally translate the Rosetta Stone. It is said that Young had made three important ideas. The first was the Coptic, a well-known language, was simply the final stage in the evolution of ancient Egyptian; the second was that hieroglyphs had two values - that is, they were both ideograms and phonetic signs; and the third was that the hieroglyphs enclosed in the cartouches were phonetic transcriptions of the names of pharaohs. Apparently Champollion used these ideas for years and in 1822 announced the decipherment of the tablet as well as a system for reading hieroglyphic script.The work of the said scholars enabled others to understand all forms of Egyptian hieroglyphs. .
             III Significance.
             The Rosetta stone was key in translating the lost language of ancient Egypt, but why is this so significant? For ages people have been intrigued by the mysteries of Egypt. Treasure and adventure hunters have scoured the lands looking for real and fabled antiquities. Children have heard of the ancient Pharaohs before they have heard of their own country's leaders. The fascination of ancient Egyptian culture is deeply integrated into cultures around the world. The Ancient Egyptians were so meticulous in recording everything, that scribes seem to have written on everything everywhere. .
             Stores of information.
             With the discovery and translation of the Rosetta stone, all types of hieroglyphic mediums became comprehensible and formed a new and extensive literature, that are by no means exhausted today, over 180 years later.