The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 and since then it has taught scholars how to read hieroglyphics, unlocking insight to ancient texts.
For centuries, scholars looked at ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and scratched their heads. Scholars had no idea what the various symbols signified and the ancient texts were a mystery.in Rosetta , a port city on the Nile river. The stone was inscribed in three languages — Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian demotic and ancient Greek.
Scholars knew ancient Greek, and although it took them several decades, the inscription taught them how to read hieroglyphics. Dubbed “The Rosetta Stone,” this large rock unlocked insight into thousands of years of ancient texts.The Rosetta Stone was about 4 feet tall and it had plenty of room for inscription. The top part had 14 lines written in hieroglyphics.
The middle part of the stone contained 32 lines in demotic. To the people who discovered the stone, demotic looked like a series of squiggles and loops. To the ancient Egyptians, it was a form of shorthand for hieroglyphics and it was used for daily affairs. It most likely resembled the language that Egyptians used everyday.
The bottom part of the text was 53 lines written in ancient Greek. The Rosetta Stone was likely inscribed around . when the Ptolemies ruled, who were Hellenic and although they kept hieroglyphics, they preferred Greek.
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