In 1972, it will be 150 years since the decryption by the French scientist Francois Champollion of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which were the main mystery of the ancient culture of Egypt. On the titanic work of Champollion and other researchers, on the development of Egyptology, which revealed to the world the great and ancient civilization of the planet, on the contribution of Russian scientists to decrypting hieroglyphs, on unsolved to this day Egyptian writing is recounted in this book.