champollion

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champollion - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Champollion
      n 1: Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone
           and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian
           hieroglyphics (1790-1832) [syn: Champollion, Jean Francois Champollion
           ]