Pages 290-291 from Grammar of Coptic Language by Athanasius Kircher

In 1636 Athanasius Kircher published a Coptic grammar text "Prodromus
coptus sive Aegyptiacus" (The Coptic, or Egyptian, Messenger). He the
was the first to understand that hieroglyphs were an alphabetical system for writing which he tried to link to the Greek alphabet.