The French were not the first to visit Egypt

The French were not the first to visit Egypt and puzzle over these strange symbols. As far as anyone knows, the last time Egyptian hieroglyphs were chiseled into stone was August of 394 AD. Over the next 1,528 years, the ability to read this ancient script vanished. When Greek scholars visited Egypt in the seventh century AD, they saw the picture writing and called them "sacred carvings" which in Greek is the word "hieroglyphs." No Egyptian alive at that time could read them as the ancient language had been replaced first by Coptic, used by Egyptian Christians and later,Rosetta Stone, after the Arabs conquered Egypt in 642 AD, by Arabic. One of the scholars, a priest named Horapollo, published a book on the writing called Hieroglyphika. He argued in it that unlike other western languages, which are phonetically based (that is each symbol stands for a sound) each Egyptian hieroglyph stood for an idea, or sometimes one of several ideas. "When they mean a mother,Rosetta Stone Language, a sight, or boundaries or foreknowledge they draw a vulture. A mother, since there is no male in this species of animal" [of course, Horapollo is completely incorrect in this statement] "It stands for sight since of all animals the vulture has the sharpest vision. It means boundaries because when war is about to break out, the vulture limits the place in which it will be fought by hovering over the area for seven days and it stands for foreknowledge because, in flying over the battlefield, the vulture looks forward to the corpses the slaughter will provide." Horapallo based his conclusion that each hieroglyph stood for one or more ideas on little or faulty evidence. Because of this, his book would hinder the understanding of the Egyptian writing for almost a thousand years.
In the 18th century the French Scholar C.J. de Guignes advanced the theory that the oval outlines (which he called cartridges, or in French, cartouche) which contained several hieroglyphs were probably meant to draw attention to important names, like that of a pharaoh. His guess was right, but some of his other ideas were just as equally wrong. Since de Guignes agreed with Horapallo that hieroglyphics was a form of picture writing, he theorized it was related to Chinese. In fact,
Samples of three different scripts on the Rosetta Stone - Top: Heiroglyphs; Middle: Demotic; Bottom: Greek.
 
he suggested that the Egyptians must have colonized China in ancient times, an idea that turned out to be totally erroneous.
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