Visual Timeline: Egyptian Hieroglyphs

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3200 BCE: Hieroglyphic script developed in Egypt.
 
2000 BCE - 1650 BCE: Cretan Hieroglyphic script is in use.
 
196 BCE: The Rosetta Stone was made, a stela carrying a priestly decree from the reign of Ptolemy V in three languages: Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek script.
 
1822 CE: Champollion announces decipherment of hieroglyphic writing.
 
 
 
 
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