The Rosetta stone


The Rosetta Stone, known for it's three languages, Hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Greek, was believed to be part of something bigger, something, that would have stood two meters high. As the top of the Rosetta Stone, looks as if broken at an angle. The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 when Napoleon's soldiers, were looking for a foundation of a fort, near a town called el-Rashid also known as Rosetta. Even thought, this was found by Napoleon, Thomas Young, was the first to notice something important inscribed on the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name, Ptolemy. Interestingly enough, the name Ptolemy belonged to a 13 year old boy, who was on the Rosetta Stone because of his coronation. This was able to be translated because, they used Greek to help identify the Hieroglyphs, and Demotic parts on the Rosetta stone.


The Rosetta Stone was taken by the British in 1801, and placed it into the British Museum, and has been there since 1802. Since then there has been many investigations on the Rosetta Stone, causing some trouble, with reading it. Later in 1999, they began working on recovering the original engraving, and found that the Stone was made of granodiorite. Which has a dark grey-pinkish color, with streaks of pink, today you can see traces of a reddish brown color in the text.


The Rosetta Stone, was also found to have laid the foundation of Egyptian language and culture, but this could have been, the Egyptians version of bulletin boards made to help organize citizens, give important information, or possibly to help others understand different languages.


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Comments

  1. Luna VelarSeptember 3, 2020 at 5:58 PM

    Hi David!

    I really enjoyed your post! I never knew much about the Rosetta stone, but it's fascinating that this was the founding of Egyptian culture and language. I also really enjoyed how you compared it to a bulletin board, as writing things down wasn't a mystical pursuit but rather a practical one. I wish you elaborated a bit more on why the investigations caused trouble with reading the stone, like what they did to the stone that caused this effect. Overall though, I found it very informative! Great post!

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  2. Amanda GarrettSeptember 6, 2020 at 9:53 PM

    After reading your blog post, I think you did a good job at explaining where and how the Rosetta Stone was discovered. However, next time you should try to include how this specific piece relates to the readings from this week. Additionally, you mentioned that this stone is known from three languages. I suggest that you go into more detail about the meaning of this piece.

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