The Rosetta Stone - discovered in the Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt - was used to learn how to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
ancient Egypt 4000 BC
You can. You just need to learn the Egyptian language. Thousands of people can translate hieroglyphics.
Ancient Egyptian language is taught in many colleges and universities around the world. You can translate a large amount after only two or three classes.
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Once you learn how to read and understand ancient Egyptian, the feeling is difficult to describe, but it's a feeling of immense accomplishment.
Scribes were the people trained to read and write
The Rosetta stone is so important because it helped experts understand and learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Rosetta stone was written in three scripts that include Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphic.
It took 5 years to be a scribe and learn all the hieroglyphics of Egypt.
Mainly, Ancient Egyptians communicated through writing; hieroglyphics and heratic. Since most people couldn’t learn the 2 languages; after all, hieroglyphs did have over 700 characters, so select people, called scribes, were taught the languages of Ancient Egypt to write them down for other people.
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Yes they have scribes. They translate Egyptian language for the town and the Pharaoh (the Egyptian king). Scribes had to work very hard as there was 700 words to learn in hieroglyphics (Egyptian language).
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