On September 27, 1822, Jean-François Champollion sent Joseph-Bon Dacier, secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, his famous letter in which he set out the general principles of hieroglyphic writing, which he had just discovered thanks to especially at the Rosetta Stone. This date marks the symbolic birth of scientific Egyptology. Two hundred years later, the Egyptology service of the University of Liège and the Museum and Cultural Center of the University of Liège, in partnership with the Grand Curtius, celebrate this discovery which will give access to the world of Egypt. ancient, still largely unknown. The exhibition retraces this curious, sometimes amusing history of the hieroglyphs which fueled a strong current of symbolic interpretation. Expo from March 4 to May 22, 2022.