why was the rosetta stone important in ancient egpyt?

Question

why was it created? how did it help the people of ancient egypt? wat was the stone used for? please help answer these questions? if u answer all these questions with a reasonable answer , i'll choose your answer as the best answer

Answer 1

What is the Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone is a stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek).

Why is it in three different scripts?

The Rosetta Stone is written in three scripts because when it was written, there were three scripts being used in Egypt.

The first was hieroglyphic which was the script used for important or religious documents.



Detail of hieroglyphic and demotic script on the Rosetta Stone
The second was demotic which was the common script of Egypt.

The third was Greek which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time.

The Rosetta Stone was written in all three scripts so that the priests, government officials and rulers of Egypt could read what it said.

When was the Rosetta Stone made?

The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C..

When was the Rosetta Stone found?

The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799.

Who found the Rosetta Stone?

The Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in Egypt.

Where was the Rosetta Stone found?

The Rosetta Stone was found in a small village in the Delta called Rosetta (Rashid).

Why is it called the Rosetta Stone?

It is called the Rosetta Stone because it was discovered in a town called Rosetta (Rashid).

What does the Rosetta Stone say?

The Rosetta Stone is a text written by a group of priests in Egypt to honour the Egyptian pharaoh. It lists all of the things that the pharaoh has done that are good for the priests and the people of Egypt.

Who deciphered hieroglyphs? Many people worked on deciphering hieroglyphs over several hundred years. However, the structure of the script was very difficult to work out.

After many years of studying the Rosetta Stone and other examples of ancient Egyptian writing, Jean-François Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs in 1822.

How did Champollion decipher hieroglyphs?

Champollion could read both Greek and coptic.

He was able to figure out what the seven demotic signs in coptic were. By looking at how these signs were used in coptic he was able to work out what they stood for. Then he began tracing these demotic signs back to hieroglyphic signs.

By working out what some hieroglyphs stood for, he could make educated guesses about what the other hieroglyphs stood for.

Answer 2

The Rosetta stone is not actually important to the people of ancient Egypt. It merely commemorated the deeds of a pharoh. The stone is split into three sections, each section written in a different language. Linguists realized that the sections meant the same thing. Since the top part was written in Greek and the bottom two parts in simplified and traditional Egyptian, the linguists could finally figure out how to read, write, and speak the languages that had been forgotten for centuries and had baffled them for just as long. Once they had figured out the two languages, ancient Egypt was much easier to research, since now everyone could read what were on the temple walls, tombs, and other places with writing that had been preserved.

Answer 3

It wasnt to the Ancients, but to modern man. The Rosetta stone is inscribed with the identical text in three languages: ancient Egypt in both its hieroglyphic and demotic (script) forms, and ancient Greek. The text was identified and translated by French linguist Jean François Champollion in 1822. The stone's text was carved in 196 BC, during the 9th year in the reign of the Ptolemaic period pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes (ruled 204-180 BC). The text describes the siege of Lycopolis, but also discusses the state of Egypt and what its citizens can do to improve things. In the text, the Greek version of the Egyptian god Amun is translated as Zeus. The Importance of the Rosetta Stone It seems pretty astounding today, but Champollion's translation of the Rosetta Stone was the first time anyone had been able to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. His translation formed the bedrock for more scholars to build on and eventually translate thousands of scripts and carvings dating for the entire 3,000 year old Egyptian dynastic tradition.

Answer 4

The Rosetta Stone was a royal decree that basically stated that it was to be written in the languages used in Egypt at the time.

The Rosetta Stone (named for the community of Rosetta) measured three feet nine inches long, two feet four and half inches wide, and eleven inches thick. It contained three distinct bands of writing. The most incomplete was the top band containing hieroglyphics, the middle band was an Egyptian script called Demotic script, and the bottom was ancient Greek.

Answer 5

Why was it created? It was simply a "letter"--using a kind of basalt stone as the material to write on-- from the Ptolemaic Dynasty to the Egyptian priensthood for their help during the war between North and South in 185 BCE. This was from Ptolemy V, 5th ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty (204 - 181 BCE).

How did it help the people of ancient egypt? It didn't necessarily do anything--just a letter of appreciation.

What was the stone used for? The value of the stone was that it gave the codes for additional forms of hieroglyifics not previously known when the Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799. Ptolemy had it written in not only classical Greek, but also several different forms of hieroglyifics. They were then able to understand the additional forms of hieroglyifics not previously deciphered.

Answer 6

Well the Rosetta stone was discovered by a french archaelogoist, and it had three languages, heiroglyph, Demonic, and Greek, all saying the same phrase. It was created by a few priests representing each nation, to create a treaty. The stone was used to learn Hyroglyphics. Since the people of the time it was discovered knew how to read Greek and Demonic, they used it as sort of a key to learn which hyroglyphs meant what. No one knew how to read the ancient egyptian writing, so they used this stone to translate writing on pyramids, tombs and many other ancient artifacts. Was that good enough? : )

Answer 7

the rosetta stone had nothing to do with the people of ancient egypt just its language. the egyptian language couldbnt be translated since it was pictographic and westerners used a alphabet with sounds. the stone had a paragraph writen 3 times in greek, anothe dialect of greek and ancient egyptian. the researchers used the greek to figure out how to read egyptian. thats what makes it important. i dont know if anyone knows who made it or why but thats what it did

Answer 8

The stone contained an inscription about a historical event. It was used as a memorial. The importance is that it had the same message in Greek, "contemporary" Egyptian, and Egyptian hieroglyphics. So when the French scientists who had come with Napoleon to Egypt brought it back to France, they were able to use it to learn Egyptian hieroglyphics for the first time ands to translate all the other Egyptian inscriptons on tombs, temples, etc.

Answer 9

The Rosetta Stone is famous for allowing the translation of the Egyptian hierogrlyphic written language.

Answer 10

The rosetta stone wasn't important to ancient egytpians. It's importance is to modern man - it allowed modern people to decipher the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.