need info on the rosetta stone?

Question

i'm in gr.7, and i need to write an essay about how the discovery of the rosetta stone helped us know more about ancient egypt, and i need to do some research before i start, so please give me some USEFUL info on this topic

Answer 1

I found 3 excellent links now open them , read and do you essay.
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http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/rosetta.html
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.

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http://www.mrdowling.com/604-rosettastone.html
The Rosetta Stone

The ancient Egyptians were a great mystery to scientists until they deciphered hieroglyphics, the writing of the ancient people. The ancient civilization was mentioned in the Bible, but we didn’t know much about the Egyptians until a troop of French soldiers found a stone near the city of Rosetta in 1799. That stone eventually made it possible to decode the ancient text.

The Rosetta Stone was inscribed with a law made in 196BC, written in two forms of hieroglyphics and in ancient Greek. Scientists decided that they could learn hieroglypics if they could decipher the code.

A French scholar named Jean Champollion translated the Egyptian wring into Greek after more than twenty years of work. Champollion concluded that hieroglyphics had originally been pictographs, but they stood for sounds in later times.

Champollion made it possible to understand hieroglyphics, and unlocked many of the mysteries of ancient Egyptian civilization. What mysteries might a modern Rosetta Stone uncover
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The Story of the Rosetta Stone, "Finding a Lost Language"
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/hieroglyphics/rosettastone.html

Answer 2

Well the main thing of the rostta stone is it opened up many doors for translation. It translated 3 languages which include: Hyroglyphics,Greek, and demotic...

A black basalt slab with a trilingual inscription in Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic found in 1799 at Raschid, near Alexandria, on the Rosetta branch of the R Nile. Cross-correlation by Thomas Young and, particularly, Jean François Champollion allowed hieroglyphs to be deciphered for the first time, and provided the key to the Ancient Egyptian language. It is now in the British Museum.

Answer 3

The Rosetta Stone is housed in the British Museum in London. I saw it when I was there it was pretty cool. Here is a link from the museum directly so you know that all of the information is accurate...

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/aes/faqs/rosetta.html

Answer 4

Type in "Rosetta stone" in your search engine and you will find enough information to do a 100 page report.