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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
The Rosetta Stone on display in the British Museum, London
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
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
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
Experts inspecting the Rosetta Stone during the Second International Congress of Orientalists, held in London in 1874
Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts
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The writing systems used in ancient Egypt were deciphered in the early nineteenth century through the work of several European scholars, especially Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young. Ancient
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…respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. The decree has only minor differences across the three versions, making the Rosetta Stone key to deciphering the Egyptian scripts. The stone was carved during the Hellenistic period and is believed to have originally been displayed within a temple, possibly at Sais. It was probably…
Jean-François Champollion in 1823, holding his list of phonetic hieroglyphic signs. Portrait by Victorine-Angélique-Amélie Rumilly.
Jean-François Champollion in 1823, holding his list of phonetic hieroglyphic signs. Portrait by Victorine-Angélique-Amélie Rumilly.
Ibn Wahshiyya's attempted translation of hieroglyphs
Ibn Wahshiyya's attempted translation of hieroglyphs
A page from Athanasius Kircher's Obeliscus Pamphilius (1650), with fanciful translations given for the figures and hieroglyphs on an obelisk in Rome
A page from Athanasius Kircher's Obeliscus Pamphilius (1650), with fanciful translations given for the figures and hieroglyphs on an obelisk in Rome
Page from Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes by Anne Claude de Caylus, 1752, comparing hieroglyphs to demotic script (No1), and to what is now known to
Page from Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes by Anne Claude de Caylus, 1752, comparing hieroglyphs to demotic script (No1), and to what is now known to be Aramaic in the Phoenician alphabet (No2, No3) from the Carpentras Stele.