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Historians were able to decipher hieroglyphics after the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.
Jean-François Champollion used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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The Rosetta Stone.
Hieroglyphics
It allowed people to decipher hieroglyphics, which was a lost language.
It allowed people to decipher hieroglyphics, which was a lost language.
that artifact is a black basalt stone found near the city of Rosetta. this stone is later called Rosetta-Stone.
The purpose of the Rosetta stone was to honor the Egyptian pharaoh. It was written in three scripts because three scripts were being used in Egypt in 196 B.C. In 1822, the Rosetta stone was used to help decipher Hieroglyphics.
the Rosetta Stone helped explain hieroglyphics
The most helpful thing was the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799; an inscription in three scripts.
The artifact that allowed scientists to translate hieroglyphics was the Rosetta Stone. It contained a decree in three scripts: hieroglyphics, Demotic script, and Greek. By comparing the Greek text with the two Egyptian scripts, scholars were able to decipher the hieroglyphics.