The Rosetta Stone
The discovery of the stone. For many centuries travelers
to Egypt saw on the ruins of ancient
temples, palaces, or tombs, or on the walls, pillars, or
ceilings of old buildings, many inscriptions
which were in the old hieroglyphic or pictorial language
of old Egypt, which no scholar knew
how to read. When Napoleon invaded the land of Egypt in
1...
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Deciphering of the stone. A young Frenchman by the name of
Champollion, using the method of
comparing the known (Greek) with the unknown (Egyptian),
succeeded in the year 1818 in
deciphering the Egyptian languages. The middle writing on
the stone was a cursive type, and was
the vernacular of the common people. The top language was
the picture w...
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Ira M. Price, The Monuments and the Old Testament, ed. 1925,
pp. 15-17;
J. A. Hammerton,
ed., The Wonders of the Past, ed. 1937, pp. 250, 251.
George G. Cameron, "Darius Carved History on Ageless Rock,"
The National Geographic
Magazine, Dec. 1950, pp. 825-844....
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