he started by finding common words within the three languages (ex. ptolemy) with that, he tried to find the characters that made up the words, while comparing them to the characters found in the other words he deciphered. As he went on, it got a lot easier to find out the meaning of the new characters, although I think he only managed to decipher about 6 in his life time.
The Rosetta stone is a stone carved in 196 B.C. with three scripts on it written to honor the Egyptian pharaoh. The scripts are Demotic, Ancient Greek, and Hieroglyphics. The Rosetta helped decipher Hieroglyphics.
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The meaning is color and shape. Why look for some kind of hidden meaning? It's not there.
There really is no meaning. Why dont you ask the kid?
no.
If the Rosetta Stone was never found, we probably could still not understand Egyptian hieroglyphs. By using the Rosetta Stone, people can compare them to the other language (Greek) because when this was figured out, Greek language still was around. If this stone would have never been found, we could not decipher the meaning of Egyptain hieroglyphs.
They did.Its because they wrote it.
Jean-Francois Champollion was able to read hieroglyphs with the help of the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone was written in both ancient Greek and hieroglyphs which allowed Champollion to understand the Egyptian language.
No, Meroitic script was not included in the Rosetta Stone inscription. The Rosetta Stone primarily has texts in Ancient Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian hieroglyphs, which helped unlock the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Meroitic script remains undeciphered to this day.
No one had a text to compare it to, meaning that many symbols were pure guesses or remained undecipherable.
There were over 800 symbols some meaning sounds and others ideas. There was no previous language to compare it to except for the Greek in the Rosetta stone.
No, if you have to decipher something your doing that thing, so its a verb.
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The Rosetta stone is a stone carved in 196 B.C. with three scripts on it written to honor the Egyptian pharaoh. The scripts are Demotic, Ancient Greek, and Hieroglyphics. The Rosetta helped decipher Hieroglyphics.
Decipher.
To decipher means to decode or interpret something that is difficult to understand, such as a code or message. It involves analyzing and figuring out the meaning of something that is unclear or obscure.
The Rosetta Stone was helped to find out the meaning and the words of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics!