Tristan Hughes

Yes, I love this story.

Come on, let's talk about this.

Come on.

Let's not ruin the surprise of what it actually is once hieroglyphs are deciphered.

We'll get to that, won't we, in a bit.

But it is such an amazing story.

And it's that alongside the Rosetta Stone.

And it's so fascinating.

You've got so many of these other objects as well, which I'm guessing at this time when they do come to the British Museum and there's still a lot of mystery around what these hieroglyphs mean.

Is there a lot of excitement in Britain when they come to the British Museum and they see all these objects there?

All right.

So how long is it before people, academics, scholars start looking into the Rosetta Stone and seeing how it can help with deciphering of the ancient Egyptian language?

Who are some of the key figures from this period then who have got copies of the Rosetta Stone and then start getting to work, seeing how that can help in the deciphering of hieroglyphs?

Right.

And one of these other figures who let's talk about now, Thomas Young.

So Thomas Young, who is this figure on the other side of the channel?

Right, well, this challenge, if it keeps going, so what's the first significant breakthrough, I guess, when looking at the Rosetta Stone with helping with this decipherment, with this decoding?

I mean, that's interesting because sometimes you associate Jung with that Ptolemy cartouche and the hieroglyphs.

But from what you're saying there, Eleanor, he also spends a lot of time and makes some significant progress in deciphering Demotic as well.

And is that sometimes overlooked, that part of the story compared with the hieroglyphs?