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The Rosetta Stone |
Discovered in Rosetta, August of 1799 then moved to England after the French surrender of Egypt in 1801, the Rosetta Stone was the key instrument to hieroglyphic decipherment.
In other words, the stone was found in this place called Rosetta (Rashid), Egypt by French explorer Bouchard [BOO - Shawr]. The stone was later taken away by the British because even then the French could not escape defeat by a fellow European country.
That information can be directly found in Vol. 10 of the 15th edition Encyclopedia Britannica. That’s right, an actual book filled with pages and actual information.
The hieroglyphics were not deciphered from symbols into text (Greek), according to Britannica. The Greek text was deciphered into the hieroglyphic symbols, and a script form of the hieroglyphic symbols called demotic.
The Rosetta Stone interpretations produced a “list of signs with their Greek equivalents…Some of the signs were alphabetic, syllabic and determinative,” of entire ideas in the objects they represented. |
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