Georg Zoëga
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Georg Zoëga was a Danish scientist. He was noted for his work as an archaeologist, numismatist and anthropologist.
Georg Zoëga
Georg Zoëga statue at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Rosetta Stone
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The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle
Georg Zoëga
…power of penetration and sound judgment, he pointed out to later investigators the path to be followed in interpreting hieroglyphics. In his work on the Rosetta Stone, French linguist and orientalist Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838), highlighted a suggestion made by Jørgen Zoëga in 1797 that the foreign names in Egyptian…
The Rosetta Stone on display in the British Museum, London
Report of the arrival of the Rosetta Stone in England in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1802
Left and right sides of the Rosetta Stone, with inscriptions: (Left) "Captured in Egypt by the British Army in 1801" (Right) "Presented by King George III".
Experts inspecting the Rosetta Stone during the Second International Congress of Orientalists, held in London in 1874