The Rosetta Stone contained a decree written in three different types of writing. When it was discovered, no one new how to read hieroglyphics, but after many years, the code was cracked.
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...
On July 15, 1799, the Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts, was found at Fort Julien in the Nile Delta during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt.
The Rosetta Stone—a slab of granitoid featuring a written decree from 196 B.C.—is one of the most helpful tools scholars and historians have uncovered to decode ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
On July 15, 1799, the Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts, was found at Fort Julien in the Nile Delta during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt.
scholars who set out to decipher the Rosetta Stone faced an array of challenges. Chief among them was the fact that hieroglyphs had fallen out of use some 1,400 years prior, with the last...
Hieroglyphic : The decree is inscribed on the stone three times. In hieroglyphic, suitable for a priestly decree. Demotic : Egyptian script used for non-religious texts. Greek : The language of the administration. The importance of this to Egyptology is immense.
Long before the Rosetta Stone was deciphered, Arabic scholars had made their own breakthroughs with Egyptian hieroglyphs, writes Daisy Dunn.
Jean-François Champollion's genius tactics deciphered the Stone's code in September 1822, opening up access to a trove of ancient Egyptian writing.
Hieroglyphics used to be a language that no one -- Egyptian or otherwise -- could decipher. With the help of the Rosetta Stone, that all changed.