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I guess you mean the Rosetta Stone, and you mean "translate", not decode.
The biggest problem facing anyone looking at a script like that is not knowing the language. Having some idea of how the language works will always help to discover how the writing works.
Secondly, the reader must decide what kind of script is being used: alphabetical, syllabic, rebus or a mixture of all three.
Without knowing the language that is represented, knowing what kind of message is included is helpful; is it a religious text, a mathematical text, an account of events, a legal document and so on.
A major difficulty was that several important scholars had declared hieroglyphs to be a rebus, where every sign stood for a complete idea, word or even a sentence. This false theory was accepted by many other scholars and it served to lead the translators along the wrong path for some time.
The translators fortunately had a number of useful clues:
- The Coptic language was still being used in some areas of Egypt and the Coptic language is the very last stage in the evolution of the ancient Egyptian language. Many people looking at hieroglyphs had already studied Coptic.
- Other hieroglyphic texts had already made them discount an alphabet system, since there were far too many signs in hieroglyphs for it to be purely alphabetic.
- Champollion was the first to identify the mixed nature of the signs, which are composed of alphabetic, syllabic and ideographic signs as well as others without a sound value at all.
- The major bonus for translators was the associated text in Greek which could easily be read; this identified the kind of message contained in the inscription, it identified personal and place names, it included numeric values and other helpful elements.
Without the Greek text, translating the hieroglyphs would have been almost impossible.
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∙ 11y agoEach hieroglyph found in pyramids and tombs often symbolized more than one consonant. Actual Egyptian hieroglyph were a combination of sound-signs, pictograms, and ideograms making it hard to decode them.
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∙ 7y agoIt is hard, but not impossible. The main challenge is that there are more than 700 common symbols to memorize. Another challenge is the phonetic symbols weren't always written in order of pronunciation; sometimes they were placed according to aesthetic value.
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∙ 14y agoYes, because you can't get started until you have assembled 7,000 slaves and built a huge Great Pyramid to write them on.
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The key that helped scholars decode some Egyptian hieroglyphics is the?
The Rosetta Stone is the key that helped scholars decode some Egyptian hieroglyphics.
How do people get to the top of the temple ruins to decode the hieroglyphics?
People get to the top of the temple ruins to decode the hieroglyphics by using various climbing equipment that is usually funded by museums and colleges. Each attempt is carefully planned out and closely monitored to ensure that each trip is safe and those decoding are able to successfully gather data.
Why did the discovery of thr rossetta stone help historians study hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone had three different languages one of which was Greek, and another was hieroglyphs. Historians already knew Greek so they used it to sort of decode the hieroglyphics.
How were Egyptian hieroglyphs decoded?
Hieroglyphics are a writing system made up of small pictures and characters. An early way to decode them was by using the Hieroglyphica, which dates back to the 5th century. The primary way to decode them now is with the Rosetta Stone, which was discovered in the 18th century by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops.
How did they make hieroglyphics?
Hieroglyphics were written by using hard cakes of clay and pens that were made out of river reeds. Egyptians would use ocher to make red ink and soot to make black ink.
The key that helped scholars decode some Egyptian hieroglyphics is the?
The Rosetta Stone is the key that helped scholars decode some Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Why is the Rosetta stone impotant?
The Rosetta Stone is what we used to decode hieroglyphics
What are the disadvantages and advantages of hieroglyphics?
The advantages of hieroglyphics is that written language could be passed down. The disadvantages were that papyrus decayed and stone walls were destroyed by time. The only reason that the hieroglyphics were deciphered is that the Rosetta Stone had the Greek language on the stone so we had a large enough sample to read the hieroglyphics.
What object helped decode the lost language of hieroglyphics?
it was decoded because it went from generation to generation
How do you decode the hieroglyphics on poptropica?
just go onto the roof of the temple ruins and there is a sheet of paper up there that will help you.
How do people get to the top of the temple ruins to decode the hieroglyphics?
People get to the top of the temple ruins to decode the hieroglyphics by using various climbing equipment that is usually funded by museums and colleges. Each attempt is carefully planned out and closely monitored to ensure that each trip is safe and those decoding are able to successfully gather data.
Who helped to decode the Rosetta Stone?
Jean-Francois Champollion unlocked the hieroglyphics in 1821-22. (Thomas Young was his fellow researcher)
Why did the discovery of thr rossetta stone help historians study hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone had three different languages one of which was Greek, and another was hieroglyphs. Historians already knew Greek so they used it to sort of decode the hieroglyphics.
How hieroglyphics affact people?
Hieroglyphics affect people because when you try you tried to read it but it hard for some people
What helped decode hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone is the artifact that helped crack the code of the hieroglyphics. The Stone spells out a royal decree in a variety of languages, and the difference between the languages helped scholars figure out what each of them meant.
Was it hard to write in hieroglyphics for a pharaoh?
Hieroglyphics were the Ancient Egyptian's system of writing, like we have the alphabet, so a Pharaoh wouldn't have had a problem writing in hieroglyphics, as these were the symbols that the Ancient Egyptians had learnt to write with.
How do you put interpret in a sentence?
It was hard for him to interpret the document because it was in hieroglyphics.
