Michel Ange Lancret
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Michel Ange Lancret (December 15, 1774 – December 17, 1807), was an engineer with the French
He was a student of the
He began describing various monuments on the banks of the Nile and remnants of ancient civilization of the pharaohs. He also wrote the initial report about the Rosetta Stone that was published on behalf of Napoleon's newly founded scientific association in Cairo, the Institut d'Égypte. In the report he noted that it contained three inscriptions, the first in hieroglyphs and the third in Greek, and rightly suggesting that the three inscriptions would be versions of the same text. Lancret's report, dated 19 July 1799,[1] was read to a meeting of the Institut soon after 25 July.[2]
On his return to France he was appointed in April 1802 to become the Commissioner for what would be the Description de l'Égypte, and directed the publication from 1805.
References
- ^ Parkinson, R.B. Diffie, Whitfield. Simpson, R.S. Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment. p.20. 1999. University of California Press 0-520-22248-2
- ^ "Ancient Egyptian Culture". mnsu.edu. Archived from the original on 4 June 2010. Retrieved 12 June 2010.