Why was the Rosetta Stone so important?

Question

I also need a website with accurate information on heiroglyphics (Egyptian writing) including heiroglyphic mathematics.

Answer 1

The Rosetta Stone is very important because it holds information of the egyptians and their language. It just helps archeaologists to have a better understanding of them.

Try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language

or

http://www.friesian.com/egypt.htm

Answer 2

The Rosetta Stone allowed us to translate Egyptian heiroglyphics again.

A decree is inscribed on the stone three times, in hieroglyphic (suitable for a priestly decree), demotic (the native script used for daily purposes), and Greek (the language of the administration). The importance of this to Egyptology is immense. Soon after the end of the fourth century AD, when hieroglyphs had gone out of use, the knowledge of how to read and write them disappeared. In the early years of the nineteenth century, some 1400 years later, scholars were able to use the Greek inscription on this stone as the key to decipher them. Thomas Young, an English physicist, was the first to show that some of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name, that of Ptolemy. The French scholar Jean-François Champollion then realized that hieroglyphs recorded the sound of the Egyptian language and laid the foundations of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian language and culture.

Link 1 goes to the British Museum who hold the Rosetta Stone, link 2 goes to a good heiroglyphics website.

Answer 3

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

The second is demotic which was the common script of Egypt.

The third is 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.

It is important because until it was discovered (rediscovered?), hieroglyphs couldn't be read. 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.

Hieroglyphs (not heiroglyphs) can be found at the following site which also does sums: http://www.greatscott.com/hiero/

Answer 4

The Rosetta Stone was a glyph that contained the same story in several different ancient languages. Therefore, scientists were finally given a point of reference for translation.

Hence, if something is compared to the Rosetta Stone, it refers to a massive breakthrough that makes everything else clear.

Answer 5

The Rosetta Stone was the key that unlocked the ancient egyptian hieroglyphics. It was found by Napoleans troops and eventually got to England. The exact same inscription appears on the stone 3 times...once in heiroglyphics, once in demotic and once in greek! Until researchers found the key by comparing demotic and hieroglyphics with what was known of ancient greek no one could read "ancient" egyptian.

the site below should help a lot on heiroglyphs and mathematics...it also has a lot of very useful links!

Answer 6

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Why was the Rosetta Stone so important?
I also need a website with accurate information on heiroglyphics (Egyptian writing) including heiroglyphic mathematics.

Answer 7

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it contained the key to understanding the hieroglyphics of ancient egypt. furthermore, it contained the same declaration in three different scripts: hieroglyphics, demotic (a cursive form of egyptian) and ancient greek. the french found the stone when they were excavating and called it rosetta after the name of the town in which it was found and also because of their persistence not to learn the arabic language(Rashid is the actual name.)

Answer 8

It gave us a way to translate the hieroglyphics.

Check the Egyptian government homepage

Answer 9

it is important because it depicts three different languages..da