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The Key to Ancient Egypt
Discovered near the town of Rosetta in 1799 by a soldier in Napoleon's army, the Rosetta Stone turned out to be the key to unlocking the lost language of the ancient Egyptians. The inscription on the Rosetta Stone is in three different scripts. The upper portion is in hieroglyphs, a language that no-one had been able to decypher. The center portion is in a script known as Demotic, which was also not understood at the time the Rosetta Stone was found. The bottom portion, however, was in Greek, a language that was well understood.
Realizing that these three scripts repeated the same proclaimation, Jean-Françios Champollion was able to unlock the mysteries of all inscriptions of ancient Egypt.
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Within the Rosetta Stone Lies Another Key
The names of the people involved in the inscription solved the puzzle
The significant leap that Champollion was able to take due to his understanding of how Demotic and Coptic were related tied together the hieroglyphs and the name of King Ptolemy. He noted that some symbols were enclosed in a symbol called a cartouche and his realization that these cartouche symbols indicated a name helped him to further decode the hieroglyphs.
Rosetta Stone Controversy
Egypt asks for the return of the Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is an artifact of the Egyptian history and culture, but for just over the last 200 years, it has been housed at the British Museum in London, England. In that time, the stone has moved only twice. Once it was evacuated during World War I, and then when it was loaned to the Louvre for one month during 1972.
The Egyptian government has asked the British Museum if it can borrow the stone for three months in 2012 to celebrate the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, being built near the Pyramids at Giza.
The British Museum have reasons why the stone would not be lent out, despite the history of having lent the stone to the Louvre. Have a look at many more details in this article on the formal request and then let the world know what you think here:
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The Way of Cartouche
The symbols of ancient Egypt come together in this deck of cards to be used as an oracle, or for meditation.-
The Way of Cartouche oracle cards
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The Way of Cartouche is an oracle deck by Murry Hope. The deck consists of 25 cards based on the deities and symbols of Ancient Egypt. It was this deck which was one of the forces behind my desire to create my own oracle deck. The main reason that Th...
What does the Rosetta Stone Mean to You?
And please let me know if you were really looking for the language teaching software, or if you were looking for information about the actual Rosetta Stone!
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- lisadh lisadh Jan 19, 2009 @ 2:04 pm
- Interesting lens! I knew of the stone, but didn't know Egypt was asking for a loan. I definitely think England should grant the loan request.
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Dec 29, 2008 @ 10:07 am
- The Rosetta Stone is fascinating. There is so much we can learn by looking back before we look ahead.
Great lens
Lizzy
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- CrypticFragments CrypticFragments Sep 5, 2008 @ 12:33 am
- the rosetta stone is one of the keys to interpreting history... are you familiar with the Behistun Inscription? Come check out my lens on Ancient Sumeria!
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- carrieokier carrieokier Apr 23, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
- O.K.- re-read- I guess the soldier swiped it?
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- carrieokier carrieokier Apr 23, 2008 @ 6:20 pm
- Nice lens- very interesting! I'm wondering how the stone got out of Egypt to begin with!
