After the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in June 1799 in the Nile Delta more work on
decoding hieroglyphic scripture began. Some of it was done it in 1802 by the English pastor Stephen Weston. After that, everyone wanted to translate hieroglyphics in Europe. After that appeared much of publications but sometimes their meaning was very far from scientific. French scholar Sylvestre de Sacy (1758-1832) concentrated mainly on demotic part of the text and he managed to extract the names of pharaohs, Ptolemy and Alexander but he failed to solve the problem of phonetics. Basis on the research of de Sacy – Akerblad identified all the names including Arsinoe, Bereniki and Aelosa. Unfortunately due to incorrect assumptions there were errors in further part of his achievements. In 1814, Thomas Young (1773-1829), English physicist and scientist, took up solving the mystery of the Rosetta Stone. As a result of his research he came to conclusions which were used by young Frenchman, Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832). He proved that the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing was based on the spoken word. The result of years of research on hieroglyphic system was establishment that the principle of phonetic hieroglyphic writing was used not only for the names of rulers, but for the whole system of signs. In 1824, French scientist has published all of his achievements.
