Champollion vs Young: who unlocked the hieroglyphs?

I did not merely count symbols, Doctor—I heard the language breathe, for I read Coptic as the Egyptians' living echo.

Yet it was I who first proved the cartouches spelled sounds, not riddles; you finished a wall I had already breached.

You breached a crack and called it a door; I walked through and gave every carved bird and reed its true voice.

Then enjoy the applause, Monsieur—but history should note the man who lit the lamp, even if another read by it.