Rosetta Stone

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Rosetta Stone Rosetta Stone, Egyptian hieroglyphics at the top, demotic characters in the middle … [Credit: Courtesy of Trustees of the British Museum], a stone bearing inscriptions of ancient Egypt in several languages and scripts of their decomposition leads to the understanding of hieroglyphic writing. Shaped stone of black granite 3 feet 9 inches (114 centimeters) tall and 2 feet 4.5 inches (72 cm) wide, and broken in antiquity, was discovered near the town of Rosetta (Rashid), about 35 miles (56 km) northeast from Alexandria. It was discovered by a Frenchman named Bouchard or Boussard August, 1799 After the French surrendered in Egypt in 1801, he went into the hands of England, and now the British Museum in London.

tag, may consist of the priests of Memphis, a generalization of Ptolemy V Epiphanes benefactions (205-180 BC) and was written for the ninth year of his reign in order to commemorate the accession to the throne. Written in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, and three writing systems, hieroglyphics, demotic script (cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics) and Greek alphabets, which provide the key for the translation of target <= "_new" rel = "nofollow" href = "http://www.flickr.com/photos/45055029@N00/399889044"> Rosetta Stone Egypt.

decomposition of most of the work of Thomas Young England and Jean-François Champollion in France. Rosetta Stone hieroglyphic text contains six identical cartouches (oval, adding the hieroglyphic figures.) Young solve the cartouche of Ptolemy as the name and the implementation of a long-held assumption that the cartouches found in other inscriptions are the names of royalty. In examining the direction in which the bird and animal-sign in front, Young also found a way to read the hieroglyphic symbols.

In 1821-1822 Champollion, starting with young people left, began to publish papers on the decomposition of hieratic and hieroglyphic writing of research based on the Rosetta Stone and the final list of all the signs of their Greek equivalents. He was the first Egyptologist to realize that some characters are alphabetical, some syllables, and some decisive in the face of the whole object or idea expressed in the past. He also has been established that the hieroglyphic text of the Greek translation of the Rosetta Stone was not, as had been thought otherwise. The work the two men created the basis for all future translations of Egyptian hieroglyphic text

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