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It is a stone used in ancient times to write a part of a historic event or royal dinasty details such as a susesive list of kings.
The Rossetta Stone and the Mesha Stele, also known as the moabite stone, are good examples of this. Go to the related links box below for both articles.
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TWOimportant facts about Rosetta stone?
The Rosetta Stone is and engraved stele. It is inscribed in three different languages: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script and Ancient Greek. It was created in 196 BCE on behalf of King Ptolemy V.
What is the Rosetta stone and how has it helped your understanding?
The Rosetta Stone is a stone tablet that has a King's decree inscribed on it in three languages. The three repetitions are Greek, a later Egyptian and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics written one above another. Because it has essentially the same text written in three languages it was the key to translating ancient hieroglyphics which, until the discovery and translation of this writing, was a cryptic mystery.
What are rupestrian paintings?
Rupestrian means inscribed in rock. A fancy term for the rock and cave paintings and carvings left by early civilizations.
What stone is the hardest stone?
Diamonds is not a stone it's crystal actually. But the hardest stone is granite stone.
What are the difference between iron age and stone age?
the stone age used different resources . the stone age used stone and the iron age used iron
Where you can find the real Rosetta stone?
The real Rosetta Stone can be found in the British Museum. The Rosetta Stone was created in 196 BC and was inscribed with a decree. The languages inscribed are in Greek and Egyptian.
What people inscribed their first written law code onto twelve stone tablets?
what society inscribed their first written law code onto twelve stone tablets ?
An upright stone slab that is engraved or inscribed is called a?
stele
A stele is an upright stone slab that is engraved or inscribed.?
true
What were the Ten Commandments written with?
The two Stone Tablets were inscribed (cutting into the stone) by God (Exodus Ch. 34).
A stele is an upright stone slab that is engraved or inscribed?
True, it can also be named a tombstone.
What does it mean that the stone-cutter has objects inscribed with Sacred to the Memory of?
C. He carves tombstones
What Slab of black rock was found in 1799 on which a message was inscribed?
coal
What is The legend of sargon?
It is an autobiography of Sargon, king of Akkad. The inscribed stone was found in Nineveh.
What is inscribed 'cormac McCarthy fortis me fierei fecit ad 1446'?
The Blarney Stone
What is inscribed above the entrance to Wuthering Heights?
The phrase "Wuthering Heights" is inscribed on a stone panel above the entrance to the location in Emily Brontë's novel.
What is the name on the resurrection stone?
There is no "name" on the Resurrection Stone. The Deathly Hallows sign is inscribed in the stone. The stone was mounted in the Gaunt family ring before Dumbledore destroyed the Horcrux in it and passed it on to Harry.
