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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.
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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.
What object helped decode the lost language of hieroglyphics?
it was decoded because it went from generation to generation
Who helped to decode the Rosetta Stone?
Jean-Francois Champollion unlocked the hieroglyphics in 1821-22. (Thomas Young was his fellow researcher)
Why is the Rosetta stone impotant?
The Rosetta Stone is what we used to decode hieroglyphics
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.
Did the Rosetta Stone help explain hieroglyphics or Roman numerals?
the Rosetta Stone helped explain 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.
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.
Who helped historians understand hieroglyphics?
Jean François Champollion
How hieroglyphics helped Egyptians?
it would have helped them communicate in other ways, than just talking.
Why was the Rosetta stone important to ancient Egypt?
The Rosetta Stone enabled us to see what the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics meant, because we could finally decode their pictograms. We knew Greek and Latin, thus were able to read the hieroglyphics all over Egypt.
