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The Rosetta Stone The name of the stone is the Rosetta Stone. It was found in 1799 by a few of Napoleon's soldiers while they were knocking down an old wall in order to build a new fort. The Rosetta Stone is the reason why we can now read and understand hieroglyphics.
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∙ 15y agoThe Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rashid (a harbour on the Mediterranean coast in Egypt which the French referred to as Rosetta during Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt), and contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing in 1822 by the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text of the Rosetta Stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repealing of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples.
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∙ 15y agoThe name of the stone used to translate hieroglyphics is the Rosetta Stone. The original is in the British Museum in London, England and a copy is the town of Figeac in France.
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∙ 14y agoIt was called the Rosetta Stone, but my spelling may be off. It was discovered by French Soldier while doing battle in Egypt during Napoleon's era.
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∙ 15y agoThe Rosetta Stone.
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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 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.
Did the Rosetta Stone help explain hieroglyphics or Roman numerals?
the Rosetta Stone helped explain hieroglyphics
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 key to figuring what hieroglyphics meant?
The Rosetta stone was the key.
The key to the interpretation of hieroglyphics was?
Rosetta stone
What unlocked the key to understand hieroglyphics?
The answer is the Rosetta Stone.
Basalt slab key in deciphering hieroglyphics?
Rosetta Stone
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.
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.
Sentence with the word hieroglyphics?
Hieroglyphics was uncovered by the Rosetta Stone
Did the Rosetta Stone help explain hieroglyphics or Roman numerals?
the Rosetta Stone helped explain hieroglyphics
French discovery that unlocked the meaning of this ancient Egyptian language?
The Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799 near Alexandria, was the key to hieroglyphics.
What does Rosetta Stone mean?
A Rosetta Stone is a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics
