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The Latest Secrets of Hieroglyphs

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four HD

Available for 12 months

In 1822, Jean-François Champollion became the first person to decipher hieroglyphs in over a thousand years. Now, a new generation of Egyptologists is learning more about the people who wrote them. Show more

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