Monday, September 7, 2020
The Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is a rock stele, found in 1799, inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in 3 scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion is Demotic script, and the lowest is Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all 3 scripts with only minor differences, the stone provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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