| ROSETTASTONE | Napoleon's troops discovered this artifact, which allowed scholars to match Egyptian hieroglyphs with known Greek words. |
| ROSETTA | Ancient Egyptian stone which allowed scholars to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, the _ Stone (7) |
| STONE | This object, on display in the British Museum, was key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. (7,5) |
| OLIVIER | Who was the first actor to be elevated to a life peerage, which allowed him to sit in the House of Lords? (Last name only.) |
| IDEOGRAMS | Graphical symbols such as Egyptian hieroglyphs used to represent ideas or concepts (9) |
| SCARAB | Which large beetle appears in Egyptian hieroglyphs? (6) |
| SEALANE | Small entrance which allowed access from the water to coastal castles under siege (3,4) |
| DECIPHERER | Jean-Francois Champollion is best-known as the ____ of Egyptian Hieroglyphs |
| LION | One of the Egyptian hieroglyphs teams can choose from on Only Connect (4) |
| DNA | In 1944, scientists working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York discovered this chemical which |
| MAUVE | Chemist William Perkin discovered this purple shade which was the first aniline dye |
| ARTSCHOOL | Scholar to sort out where to learn to paint (3,6) |
| CARTOUCHE | Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs |
| ISIS | Deity oft in Egyptian hieroglyphs |
| IBIS | Bird in Egyptian hieroglyphs |
| ALEPH | First letter of the Hebrew alphabet, thought to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of an ox's head (5) |
| ANKH | Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph in the form of a looped cross (4) |
| LOGOGRAM | Symbol such as an Egyptian hieroglyph, Aztec glyph or a Chinese character in the Kangxi Dictionary (8) |
| TRIALANDERROR | At the end of summer, Alderton has an excited air about it, but this all changes by the end of September -- I discovered this by experimenting with various visiting dates (5,3,5) |
| ESTAMINET | A small cafe, originally one which allowed smoking |
