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The Rosetta Stone is a large stone covered in writing in three scripts: hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek. It was discovered by French soldiers in the late 1700s at the time of the Napoleonic conquest and occupation of Egypt. Napoleon had brought French intellectuals to help him study things about Egypt and they believed that The Rosetta Stone would be the code to deciphering Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. However, when the French were beaten by British military forces, they were forced to give

Arguably one of the most important discoveries made regarding the historical and cultural study of ancient Egypt is the translation of the writing form known as hieroglyphics. This language, lost for thousands of years, formed a tantalizing challenge to a young Jean François who committed his life to its translation. Scholars such as Sylvestre de Sacy had attempted to translate the Rosetta Stone before Champollion, but after painstaking and unfruitful work, they abandoned it (Giblin 32). Champollion’s

The Rosetta Stone has broadened people’s languages and helped people to communicate with Egyptians and Greeks. 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 made in 196 B.C. The stone was made by a few priests in Egypt to honor their Pharaoh. French soldiers discovered

museum. I am ashamed to admit that prior to taking Anthropology, I did not know what the Rosetta Stone was. This very important artifact was made in 196 B.C. It is a shiny black stone with three different sections of writings: ancient Greek, a Demotic script, and Egyptian hieroglyphs

found a black basalt slab. The black slab was inscribed with ancient writing near Rosetta. French soldier notice it contained fragments of different passages. Written in their different scripts, known as Greek, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, and Egyptian demotic. This black basalt stone would be called the Rosetta stone. Before, we knew about the Rosetta stone. There is a long history on how it came about, and who found it, and who took the stone. Napoleon was an emperor at the time. When his troops invade

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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hieroglyphs. Then they puzzled over the second script. They had seen examples of it before on rolls of papyrus, the writing material the Egyptians used instead of paper.Deciding that it was a simpler form of Egyptian writing, the scholars called it demotic, meaning “of the people.”" This chapter also tells us that the scholars got to keep the

The decree was issued in Memphis, however the original site of the stone is unknown. The significance of the decree is that is was inscribed in three difference languages, with the top script written in hieroglyphics, the middle script written in Demotic script, and the bottom script written in Ancient Greek. The last sentence of the Greek script indicated that the inscriptions were the same text in three different languages: The news of the discovery of the Rosetta stone spread quickly and top

There are seven hundred different symbols in hieroglyphics. In fact, the ancient egyptians didn’t even use punctuation to separate the end of sentences and words. They also didn’t place spaces after each word like we do in english. Another unique thing about the ancient egyptians was that they didn’t use vowels when translating or writing with hieroglyphics. Another scribe based off of hieroglyphics was known as hieratic writing. Hieratic writing was a simplified version of hieroglyphics. Hieratic