The Rosetta Stone
By Thomas Halloran
The Rosetta Stone was a crucial part of deciphering hieroglyphs for mankind. The Rosetta Stone is a large piece of dark grey granite. The Stone is three feet nine inches long and two feet four inches wide. The stone approximately weighs a massive 1,680 pounds. Carved by the Egyptians in 196 B.C., the Stone contains a portion of text reflected in three scripts. One of the scripts, Hieroglyphs, had not been deciphered when the Stone was discovered. The other two scripts are Demotic and Classical Greek. Demotic is a language spoken by the Egyptians used in the Nile Delta. The Stone was discovered by the French at the end of the 18th century. The Rosetta Stone was the key to translating the
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Through their whole life time, they would go by a nickname. If someone knew a person 's true name they would gain magical powers over that person. This is one reason why when rulers of Egypt took the throne they had their name changed. The afterlife was important to the Egyptians, therefore the burial was important to them also. Some citizens were cremated and some were mummified. The Egyptians mummy was created to retain the body of an individual making it so the soul could achieve immortality.
One of the few technological advancements of the period was the papyrus,of which the English word paper, comes from. The ramp and lever were also developed by the Ancient Egyptians. A British anthropologist discovered objects in an ancient childs grave appearing to be used for bowling, so it is possible that they developed the sport of bowling. They were advanced in working with glass and metals such as, bronze and gold. Aswell as their precision and beauty when it comes to architecture. They valued personal appearance and hygiene very highly. The Ancient Egyptians regularly bathed and scented themselves in perfume and other incense. They created cosmetics for both men and women. The Egyptians lived in a modest house, raised a family of their own, and liked to relax when possible. Although a difference between Egyptian culture and these other lands was that, they thought their lives were sewn together
In the late 1700's an elite of Napoleons men had found the stone after overtaking Egypt. The stone had various hieroglyphs and demotic carved into it. Giblin touches bases on how many people had unsuccessful outcomes with solving the Rosetta Stone mystery. Eventually this mystery was solved successfully after realizing it's meaning was not just symbolic but needed
Egyptians would bury their dead with treasures like gold and other things that they believed that they could use in the afterlife. Egyptians also mummified the people so that they could preserve their bodies. Nowadays people just have a funeral or cremate the
The Egyptians also worried very much about the after life and made many preparations before the afterlife. There graves were very important to them, and they also did much to keep them from decaying after they passed. That is why they had the idea of mummification to allow them to not decay long after they passed. We also pay a lot of money to allow us to keep from decaying on our burials and the coffins.
The royal tombs of Egypt reveal that they wore fabrics such as silk which was very rare and a great commodity of the time. Artifacts and what's left that were found during excavations reveal to us that ancient Egyptians were very fashionable and culturally aware. The ancient royalty of Egypt such as the pharaohs wore a lot of gold jewelry. The abundance of gold made ancient Egypt seem to have been a very rich nation.
With the discovery of the Rosetta Stone by Pierre Francois Xavier Bouchard (1772-1873), after further inspection of the damaged artifact, Bouchard recognized that it was part of a stela inscribed with three different scripts displaying fourteen lines of incomplete hieroglyphic, fifty-three lines of Greek, and thirty-two lines in the middle section with a script know as Demotic. It was later confirmed that the inscriptions recorded the same text in three different
Then the scholars named the stone the "Rosetta Stone" to honor the place where the soldiers had found the stone. They also studied the stone for a while, trying to decode what the hieroglyphs mean. In the third part "Clues to the Puzzle," the scholars were trying to decipher the hieroglyphs and what the writing on the slab, and then they discovered that the demotic script was in cursive, and the scholars guessed it was written in an alphabet in Western language. Then when they discovered that alphabet, they thought it can be easier to translate than the hieroglyphs, and soon a person named Sylvestre de Sacy, figured out one the groups of hieroglyphs spelled out the name Ptolemy. Also many people made copies of the Rosetta Stone so someone can try to figure out the meaning behind the hieroglyphs.
It was created by a council of priests to honor Ptolemy V. The Rosetta stone was made when Greeks began to rule Egypt. On the stone the same passage is written three times. Once in hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek. The passage was written in hieroglyphics because the Egyptians used this script for important or religious documents. The passage was written in demotic because this was the common script for the Egyptians. The passage was written in Greek because when the Rosetta stone was being made the rulers of Egypt were Greek descendants. The Rosetta stone was written in three different languages so that all the people of Egypt could read what it said. The Rosetta stone was carved in 196 B.C. The Rosetta stone states all the good things that the Egyptian pharaoh has done for the priests and the people of
The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it in 2 different languages Greek and Egyptian. The Rosetta Stone uses 3 types of scripts demotic, Greek, and Hieroglyphic. The Rosetta stone lists all the good things that the pharaohs did for the people of Egypt.
The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 BCE and was found in 1799 by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in Egypt. It is called the Rosetta Stone because it was discovered in a small village in the Delta called Rosetta. It is a stone with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, hieroglyphics, demotic and Greek. The Rosetta Stone is a text written by a group of priests in Egypt to honor the Egyptian pharaoh. It lists all of the things that the pharaoh has done that are good for the priests and the people of Egypt. Many people worked on translating the hieroglyphics because the
This oddly shaped stone contained pieces of three different writings that was used in Egypt. At that time the Rosetta Stone was engraved with a language for priests, government officials, and rulers of Egypt. The first one was Egyptian Hieroglyphics and it was for religious purposes.
In Ancient Egyptian times the Pharaoh was the most important. They owned all the land, collected taxes and defended Egypt against foreigners. The Pharaohs were so important that even once they had died they were buried with special treasures and artefacts because this is what the Ancient Egyptians believed the pharaohs needed for the afterlife. The Egyptians believed that to have an afterlife they would have to mummify their bodies and keep the remains in Canopic Jars. The first thing they do during the process of mummification is they take the body to a shelter and the Embalmers wash-down the body with wine and rinse that off with water from the Nile River.
I think that the author of this story, Cross Giblin, was very effective in explaining details in the sequence of translating the Rosetta stone. In chapter one of the story he uses dates to tell the beginning of the story. For example "near the entrance to the long, high-ceilinged room stand twomagnificent granite statues of Pharaoh Amenophis III, who ruled Egypt about 1400 B.C. Farther on is a colossal head of Pharaoh Ramesses II dating back to 1250 B.C. And beyond it, resting on a simple base, is a slab of black basalt, a volcanic rock." This is very beneficial because it lets us know where the Rosetta stone originated from. He also goes on to explain that no one knew how to read hieroglyphics at the time of the discovery. He tells us that many tried but did not succeed. He also tells us that the Greeks decided to add some of their own definitions.
Pierre-François Bouchard, was the officer in charge, recognized the potential significance, and the stone was given to the scholars to examine and commence studies. The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele that measures at 1.1 meters long and is a broken fragment of a much larger stele. The stone was inscribed in 196 BC with a priestly decree regarding the young Ptolemy V. The inscriptions chronicle Ptolemy V’s victory in the Nile delta against Egyptians opposed to the Hellenistic rule of the time period. The decree was issued in Memphis, however the original site of the stone is unknown.
Another technology that we can attribute to the ancient Egyptians, and one that we take for granted in our current times, is paper and writing. The word “Paper” comes from the ancient Egyptian writing material called “papyrus”, which was
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