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April 4, 2023: THE ROSETTA STONE AND HIEROGLYPHS - Coggle Diagram
April 4, 2023: THE ROSETTA STONE AND HIEROGLYPHS
the rosetta stone reading - notes
the key to translating hieroglyphics
a script made up of pictures
originally used in religious texts
stopped using hieroglyphics at around 4000 CE
after that, people couldn't read hieroglyphics until the rosetta stone was found in 1799
3 translations of the same decree
decree is written in:
hieroglyphic
for a priestly decree
demotic
used for daily purposes
Greek
language of the administration
scholars could use their knowledge of Greek to decipher the text
Opposition to the Ptolemies
family of Ptolemies lost control of Egypt in previous years
it took time for their military to put down revolts
before around 332 B.C.E., decrees in hieroglyphs were set up by the king
the discovery
Thomas Young, an English physicist, was the first to show that some of the hieroglyphs of rosetta stone, spelt a name - Ptolemy
French scholar Jean-François Champollion realized that the hieroglyphs recorded the sounds of Egyptian language
1799, soldiers in Napoleon's army found the Rosetta Stone while digging up the foundations (of an addition to a fort)
found near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta)
after Napoleon was defeated, the stone was handed over to the British
moved to the british museum around 1802