At the dawn of Italian Egyptology: Jean-François Champollion in Rome

The discovery of Egyptian antiquities in Italy, and in particular in Rome, which were also used for new celebratory inscriptions. Thanks to the presence of Champollion, Rome became an Egyptological workshop, important for the birth of Italian Egyptology and the development of international studies in this field. an early Italian interest in the archaeology of Egypt, already in the Renaissance, at the same time as the birth of classical archaeology. Egyptology developed in Italy starting with the presence of J.-F. Champollion, who first visited the country in 1824 and 1825, to study the numerous Egyptian antiquities, in Turin, Rome and elsewhere. In Rome, Champollion reserved great attention to the study of the obelisks inscriptions and the papyri in the Vatican Library. Champollion’s presence in Rome created a great stir, a wide debate, and a keen interest in the ancient Egyptian language and hieroglyphs,