How were Egyptian hieroglyphs deciphered?
Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered in 1822 by French scholar Jean-François Champollion, using the Rosetta Stone, which had the same text in three scripts.
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- What is the oldest customer complaint?
“The oldest known customer complaint, from around 1750 BC, is a clay tablet in which a man named Nanni complains to a merchant named Ea-nasir about low-quality copper.”
Reference: British Museum
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