Rosetta Stone Athanasius Kircher in the 17th, and Georg Zoëga in the 18th. The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 provided critical missing information, gradually revealed by a succession of scholars, that eventually allowed Jean-François Champollion to solve the puzzle that Kircher had called the riddle of the Sphinx. The Greek text on the Rosetta Stone provided the starting point. Ancient Greek was widely known to scholars, but they were not familiar with details of its use in the Hellenistic period as a government language in Ptolemaic Egypt; large-scale discoveries of Greek papyri were a long way in the future. Thus,
Hieroglyphics (group) prominently on their albums, website, stickers, and clothing. As a collective, the Hieroglyphics have released three studio albums: "3rd Eye Vision" in 1998, "Full Circle" in 2003, and "The Kitchen" in 2013. In 2005, the collective released a live DVD and accompanying CD of the Hiero's 2003 "Full Circle Tour". The collective has also released five compilation albums: "Hieroglyphics B-Sides" and "Hieroglyphics Oldies, Vol. I" in 1997, "Hieroglyphics Oldies, Vol. II" in 1998, "The Building" in 2004, "The Corner" in 2005, and most recently, "Over Time", in March 2007. Individual members of the collective have also released albums of their