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He revealed in 2004 through an analysis of manuscripts that Arab scholars had correctly interpreted many hieroglyphic symbols in the ninth century, almost 1,000 years before Champollion.

Their secret? A system of hastily scrawled symbols that only the initiated would understand. These symbols, really hieroglyphs, appeared on posts and bridge abutments, on fences and outbuildings.

Following the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, two scholars battled each other to decipher the mysterious Egyptian writing system.