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The name Rosetta is often used as a girl's name. It originated from Italian. The meaning of the name is "Rose".

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Most people that are trying to learn good english turn to Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone is a well known language learning program. I would recommend giving that a try first because I know that Rosetta Stone is a great quality language learning tool.


What According to The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone what happens as a result of the British destroying the French fleet anchored near Alexandria?

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How did Sir Henry Rawlinson discover cuneiform?

The Rosetta Stone written in three languages including hierglyphics, demotic (cunieform) and Greek.


What are the similarities between hieroglyphs and English?

None. Hieroglyphs are a pictographs format of writing. While English is a letter symbol representing sounds when combined. This is why it took the Rosetta Stone to figure the language out.


How was cuneiform deciphered throughout history?

Cuneiform script is the earliest known writing system in the world. Knowledge of cuneiform was lost until AD 1835, when Henry Rawlinson, an English army officer, found some inscriptions on a cliff at Behistun in Persia. Carved in the reign of King Darius of Persia they consisted of identical texts in three languages: Old Persian, Babylonian and Elamite. After translating the Persian, Rawlinson began to decipher the others. By 1851 he could read 200 Babylonian signs. Before Rawlinson, scholars tried to figure out what the words on ancient clay tablets meant, but they had no guidelines. Georg Grotefund, a high school teacher in Germany, was sure the cuneiform wedges represented some type of alphabet. Using two different inscriptions from a gate at Persepolis Grotefund isolated what he believed were royal names. He was right, but he couldn't really do more without a kind of Rosetta Stone for cuneiform. The Rosetta Stone (with its three inscriptions in hieroglyphs, demotic Egyptian and Greek which all say the same thing) was rediscovered in Rashid (Rosetta), Egypt in 1799 by Napoleon's army. Because a young French Egyptologist, Jean Francois Champollion, could work with two of the three languages, he was able to unlock the secret to the third language: Egyptian hieroglyphics.