1799, Napoleon's army discovered the famous Rosetta Stone near the town of Rosetta in Egypt. There are three kinds of fonts on the tablet, all of which are orthographic Egyptian.

French, popular Egyptian and Greek. 1822, French scholar champollion deciphered the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt by studying inscriptions, so this year was regarded as the first year of Egyptology. However, Okacha of the School of Archaeology, University College London? El? Dr Dali recently announced that the Arabs had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics 800 years before champollion. Dali told Abu, an alchemist in the ninth century? Bach? Ahmed. Ibn？ Having studied the works of AbuBakrAh madIbnWahshiyah, he was convinced that the latter knew hieroglyphics. Then he analyzed some ancient Arabic manuscripts and finally came to the conclusion that ancient Arab scholars had discovered the secrets of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics by using their own knowledge of mathematics and astronomy.