And that brings us to the hero of our story: Jean-Francois Champollion.

这就把我们带到了故事的主人公身上：让-弗朗索瓦·商博良。

A French scholar, Jean-Francois Champollion, then realised that not only the symbols for Ptolemy but all the hieroglyphs were both pictorial 'and' phonetic they recorded the 'sound' of the Egyptian language.

法国学者让弗朗索瓦商博良其后发现，所有的象形文字都是既象形又表音的。这种文字也记录下了埃及语的发音。