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( 2 ) Frenchman Anqetil-Duperron, French English prisoner, Alexander Hamilton and German Freidrich Schlegal gave
memorable services to the cause of comparaSciences of Com
rative philology tive philology. H. H. Wilson was pioneer and comparative to Sanskrit studies at Oxford. Mythology
French Societie Asiatique was founded in 1821 A. D. and Royal Asiatic Society in London was founded in 1823 A. D. Then came Professor Freidrich Maxmüller on the scene. He rendered signal services to the cause of the science of comparative philology. He advanced his researches in a new direction and discovered the common gods of the undivided people who spoke the original Aryan language, the mother of Greek, Latin, Gothic, Celtic, Persian, Lithuanian, Teutonic, Sanskrit and such others. He rightly claims to be the father of comparative mythology. He rendered the most brilliant service to the cause of the two sciences by the publication of the sacred Books of the East Series.
But the linguists suffered from the limitation of working only on written records. They could not construct the full pictures of their ideas.
Till the close of the Eighteenth century Greek culture and civilization was considered to be the most ancient. The
whole of Europe and America were indebted Science of Egy- to the Greek ideas and institutions for their ptology
intellectual, scientific, social and political growth. Napoleon Bonaparte carried his military expedition to Egypt in 1798 A. D. Trilingual Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 A. D. Some unsuccessful attempts were made to read the script but the crowns fell on the head of Jean Francois Champillion. He deciphered the Hieroglyphic script. He read his memorable lettre a M. Dacier at the Paris Academy on 29 September 1822 and laid the foundations of Egyptology. Flinders Petrie and Jnmes. H. Breasted,
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