sudan history Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/sudan-history Sat, 29 Oct 2016 18:04:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Sudan Map http://travelsfinders.com/sudan-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/sudan-map.html#respond Sat, 29 Oct 2016 18:04:28 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=207913 Jean-Francois Champollion in Sudan Jean-Francois Champollion’s gravemarker subtly speaks of his enormous significance. Champollion can conservatively be called a child prodigy. He taught himself to read at 5 years old and by age 11 he knew Greek, Latin and Hebrew. By age 16 he had mastered a dozen more languages. By age 20 he could speak 13 languages. At age 19 he was already an assistant professor at Grenoble Academy and it was there that he became interested in all things Egyptian. That same year a soldier, Pierre-Francois Bouchard, of the French expedition to Egypt found a black stone inscribed

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