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Decoding the hieroglyphs from the very beginning must've been a nightmare, wtf
They had help from the Rosetta Stone. Otherwise they may never have fully translated it.
Watch The British Museum’s Curator’s Corner on youtube. They have a bunch of videos with Dr Ilona Regulski. She’s so good at explaining how to read these heiroglyphs and the story of how we decoded them.
Here is one link but she has a bunch more on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klJBwnBHET8
Will do!