The Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is a fragment of a stela with a decree about Ptolemy V of Egypt. The decree is inscribed in three scripts. The Rosetta Stone was used to understand Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Date:
196 BC

The Three Scripts Are:
Upper Section/ Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Middle Section / Egyptian Demotic
Lower Section / Ancient Greek
(There are some differences in the scripts)

Number of Lines in Each Script:
Egyptian Hieroglyphs – 14 lines
Egyptian Demotic – 32 lines
Ancient Greek – 54 lines

Material:
Granodiorite

Discovered:
1799 by French Soldier Pierre-Francois Bouchard (Napoleonic expedition to Egypt)

Where Discovered:
Near Rashid (Rosetta) Egypt

Deciphered by (including):
Jean-Francois Champollion (1822)
Thomas Young

Current Location:
British Museum, London

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone

Lynn
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