Carlos Blanco

About Carlos Blanco

Carlos Blanco (born in Coslada, Madrid, on March 7, 1986) is a Spanish Egyptologist and philosopher, known for his collaboration as a child prodigy on television and radio programs distributed in Spain, Egypt, and South America. He has published "Mentes maravillosas que cambiaron la Humanidad" and an essay on Copernicus.

Carlos Blanco began to speak when he was seven months old and by age two he learned to read. Interested in Science and Politics since an early age, at eight he started to learn ancient languages, studying on his own Egyptian and Sumerian. He attended local state school, "C.P. Pablo Neruda". In 1997, when he was eleven years old, he was admitted to the Spanish Association of Egyptology.

In May 1998, after getting the highest mark in the official course on Egyptian hieroglyphs, he was reckoned by the Spanish national newspaper El Mundo as the youngest Egyptologist in Europe and the youngest hieroglyphs decipherer in the world, and by age 12 he was named honorary member of the Clos Archaeological Foundation (Barcelona), giving his first lectures at the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona and publishing his first papers on Egyptology. In the same year, he was invited to visit Egypt by the Egyptian Government and he was awarded a scholarship to study Arabic at the Egyptian Institute of Islamic Studies (Madrid), where he took two years on this language. He was simultaneously engaged with English, French, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Egyptian, Latin and Minoan (writing a paper on the decipherment of the Phaistos Disk in 1998), which made of him a celebrated polyglot in his country.