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The "Rosetta Stone" was a carved stele, or slab, which was created in 196 AD during the reign of Ptolemy V. It was discovered by the Napoleonic army in 1799 at Fort Julien, near Rashid (Rosetta), Egypt. Because the stele had essentially the same message written in three separate scripts (hieroglyphic, Egyptian Demotic, and Greek), it provided the key to deciphering the ancient hieroglyphic writing of Egypt.
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∙ 7y agoThe Rosetta Stone was a carved slab, called a stele, which was written during the reign of Ptolemy V. in 196 CE. It was discovered by the Napoleon's army in 1799 at Fort Julien, near Rashid (Rosetta), Egypt.
The writing on the stele had the same exact message written in three separate scripts (hieroglyphic, Egyptian Demotic, and Greek), and because Greek was a fully known language, it provided the key to deciphering the ancient hieroglyphic writing of Egypt.
Furthermore, all the proper names were circled in a format called a "cartouche" which made them easy to identify and decode.
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∙ 6y agoThere is really no key, but it was a phonetic language and you have to know their spoken language as well to know how to read true hieroglyphics.
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Was the book of the dead the key to deciphering ancient hieroglyphics?
No. The key to deciphering hieroglyphics was the Rosetta Stone.
What was the object called to provide the key to understanding hieroglyphics?
an english-hieroglyphics dictionary
What was the key to figuring what hieroglyphics meant?
The Rosetta stone was the key.
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 is the name of the ancient tablet that provided a key to deciphering hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta stone.
The key to the interpretation of hieroglyphics was?
Rosetta stone
Was the book of the dead the key to deciphering ancient hieroglyphics?
No. The key to deciphering hieroglyphics was the Rosetta Stone.
What was the object called to provide the key to understanding hieroglyphics?
an english-hieroglyphics dictionary
What was the key to figuring what hieroglyphics meant?
The Rosetta stone was the key.
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 unlocked the key to understand hieroglyphics?
The answer is the Rosetta Stone.
What was the key to the interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics?
The key was the so-called Rosetta Stone, which was discovered near Rashid, Egypt in 1799. The stone told of a decree by Ptolemy V in 196 BC, and the decree was written in three languages : Greek, Egyptian demotic, and hieroglyphics. It offered the first breakthrough in modern interpretation of hieroglyphic writings.The Rosetta stone was found in 1799 by a part of Napoleons' army near Alexandria, Egypt. They were about to tear down a wall in Rosetta when they found the stone. Before the stones discovery no one knew or could translate ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Unlike Egyptian many people knew Greek, but still it took years to translate. That is why the Rosetta stone is the key to understanding ancient Egyptian.
Basalt slab key in deciphering hieroglyphics?
Rosetta Stone
What is the name of the ancient tablet that provided a key to deciphering hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta stone.
How do you get the other piece of the book for the tranilating key in poptropica?
To get the translating key, you push the cube to the broken vine and climb on it till you get to the top. Jump diagonally to the top of the cave where you punch the hieroglyphics. Keep going left and you will find the page. Jump down and go into the cave. Find the entrance of the blocked place where the hieroglyphics is. Press it. The page will be beside it. Under the hieroglyphics, there are letters. Simply press the hieroglyphics of the word ''Open" then press the nose.
How did the Rosetta stone provide a key to help with hieroglyphics?
The Rosetta Stone had the same text encrypted in three scripts. The three scripts were Hieroglyphics (religious and important documents were written in hieroglyphics), the common Egyptian language and Greek, the language of the Egyptian rulers at the time.
French discovery that unlocked the meaning of this ancient Egyptian language?
The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799 near Alexandria, was the key to hieroglyphics.
