How did Champollion decipher the Rosetta Stone?

Jean-François Champollion solved the mystery of the Rosetta Stone like a puzzle master who knows exactly where to look.

Imagine you have a toy box with three different kinds of blocks: red, blue, and green. All of them show the same picture, but each one has labels in a different language, English, Spanish, and French. If you know what the word for "dog" is in Spanish, you can match it to the red block, and then figure out what "dog" means in French by looking at the green block. That’s how Champollion worked with the Rosetta Stone.

The stone had three types of writing, Greek, Demotic (a form of ancient Egyptian), and hieroglyphs (the fancy pictures that Egyptians used to write). Champollion knew Greek, so he could read part of the message. He used that to guess what the other parts meant, like figuring out which picture stood for which word.

He noticed that some symbols were repeated, just like how you might see "the" a lot in a story. That helped him unlock the hieroglyphs piece by piece, just like solving a big jigsaw puzzle!

Soon, he could read ancient Egyptian texts and discover all the amazing stories hidden in them!