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Sep 17, 2024 · Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian stone bearing inscriptions in several languages and scripts; their decipherment led to the understanding of hieroglyphic writing. It was found in 1799 near the town of Rosetta (Rashid), about 35 miles northeast of Alexandria.
- Demotic Script
demotic script, Egyptian hieroglyphic writing of cursive...
- Egyptian
Egyptian language, extinct language of the Nile valley whose...
- Ptolemy V Epiphanes
Ptolemy V Epiphanes (born c. 210—died 180 bce) was a...
- British Museum
Among the British Museum’s most famous holdings are the...
- Hieroglyphic Writing
The need to identify a pictorial representation with a royal...
- Demotic Script
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 texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek.
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Jul 14, 2017 · The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the British Museum. But what is it? The Stone is a broken part of a bigger stone slab. It has a message carved into it, written in three types of writing. It was an important clue that helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs (a writing system that used pictures as signs).
Jan 3, 2014 · The Rosetta Stone is a stone slab measuring 112.3 by 75.7 cm, and it is 28.4 cm thick. The text on the Rosetta stone is composed of an Egyptian hieroglyphic text of 14 lines, a demotic text of 32 lines and a Greek inscription of 54 lines.
- Mark Cartwright
Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission with contributions from its member states and NASA. Operating such a complex mission with its 11 instruments and Philae lander is a success story in itself, but Rosetta’s greatest success is the science it delivered.
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Nov 5, 2007 · Nearly two centuries after a Frenchman decoded hieroglyphs on an ancient granite stone, opening the proverbial door into the arts, language and literature of Egypt's 3,000-year-old civilization,...
