4. Ancient Egyptians developed written language, made up of pictographic symbols for words called Hieroglyphics.…
According to BBC’s documentary ‘Ancient Egypt - The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone,’ the Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers after invading Egypt in 1798. This stone was unique because it had carved writings in three different scripts: Hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek. The oldest writings were the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. No one understood these mysterious writings. Were they were just symbols, letters, or words? Finding this stone; while a great discovery, was only the beginning of years of mystery, confusion, and conflict.…
Hieroglyphics was the key find that came out of the Rosetta Stone, because it led to so many other discoveries after we cracked the code of it. We used the Greek written onto the stone to decipher the Hieroglyphics. Champollion was the one who decoded them, and it made it even more exciting to know that when he was younger it was his dream to unlock the key to hieroglyphics. They found it while constructing Fort St. Julien which was located n Ancient Rosetta. He…
In 1799, when Napoleon’s army was dismantling a wall in Rashid, Egypt, they discovered the Rosetta Stone. It was chiseled with inscriptions in two different languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, hieroglyphs, demotic, and Greek. This 1700-pound piece of rock was the greatest discover of all time by being the key to the modern understanding of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.…
The Rosetta Stone, an ancient slab of black basalt, seems unimportant behind glass in its new home. When inspected, multiple inscriptions can be seen, three different sections. The biggest mystery was the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the unknown language. However, this mysterious riddle stone was the key to unlocking ancient Egypt's history.…
James Giblin had informed his readers of who the first person was that fully understood the Rosetta Stone, who was, Champollion. Although many of the scholars before thought that the hieroglyphs were either sound or images, Champollion knew they were both, and Giblin was happy about Champollion's discovery, "Champollion had every reason to be excited. He had confirmed that more than one Greek name was expressed phonetically by the hieroglyphs. And he now knew a dozen different hieroglyphic symbols with which he could go about deciphering other Egyptian names and…
The Shang Period of China and the Egyptian culture shared many advancements in common. They both domesticated animals and crops that supported large populations, developed bronze weapons, chariots, bows, and large well-organized armies, as well as the use of a written language. They also shared a common belief in tomb building for their rulers and placed objects in Tombs for use in the afterlife. While both cultures had similarities, the Egyptians were far advanced in their engineering and building of tombs, and monuments, artwork, and understanding of mathematics, and astronomy. They were also more advanced in their writing called hieroglyphs and a cursive script. Also, the Egyptians are the builders of the great pyramids.…
These symbolical scribbles are also important for another reason. There is the chance that these were the beginning of written language. Defined by Crystal Links, a pictograph is when a symbol is used to represent an object or concept, not unlike the written languages of today. Egyptian pictographs, for example, told the history of their gods. Interestingly, Egyptian writing holds similarities with the cave painting symbols, the water of the Nile being comparable to early finger fluting images. Such similarities should not be possible, due to geographical…
The inscription includes three versions of the same text, written in three different cuneiform script languages: Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian (a later form of Akkadian). In effect, then, the inscription is to cuneiform what the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian hieroglyphs: the document most crucial in the decipherment of a previously lost…
Ancient Egypt was very advanced for their age. They found new ways of technology including a writing system, many types of medicines and cures, toothbrush and toothpaste, and they built tall pyramids out of stone for the burial site of their kings and leaders, who were thought to be deities, or gods.According to the textbook, “Egypt invented many useful items we still use”. Whilst having the similarities of having their own writing system,…
Hieroglyphics are among the first of written records that we can study today. In its most general form, hieroglyphic writing is a system that utilizes characters in the form of pictures. Each hieroglyphs, may be read either as an image, or as symbols for sounds. The word hieroglyph comes from the Greek word for sacred carving. The word hieroglyph has been applied to the scripts of the Indus civilization and of the Hittites, who also possessed other scripts, in addition to the Mayan, the Incan, and Easter Island writing forms, and also the signs on the Phaistos Disk on Crete, but the strict meaning of the word is used only to describe the carvings on Egyptian monuments.…
In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invaded Egypt, Napoleon 's army was helping to repair a fort near the Egyptian town of Rosetta. In the process of dismantling the wall, a member of the expedition discovered a slab of stone with inscriptions from 196 B.C.E., of three languages; hieroglyphics which was the script used for important or religious documents, demotic a commonly used style of Egyptian writing, and Greek which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time. (Rosetta Stone). The Rosetta Stone is written in three scripts because when it was written, there were three scripts being used in Egypt The Rosetta Stone was written in all three scripts so that the priests, government officials and rulers of Egypt could read what it said ("Ancient Egypt"). The discovery happened during the French Revolutionary Wars in the present day Rashid. Napoleon and his army were not aware that this eleven inch thick, black basalt rock would be one of the greatest discoveries in history today ( Rosetta Stone). Although scientists have known for a long period of time that the priests of Ancient Egypt used a type of symbol, or picture writing called hieroglyphics. For many years no one was capable of reading this forgotten language (Rosetta Stone) because, scholars were unable to learn or verify facts.…
What is the Rosetta Stone is? The Rosetta stone is a very important artifact that was discovered during the French invasion of Egypt in the year 1799. You may ask why this is important. Well because of the Rosetta Stone, the historians and scientists now understand ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.…
Do any of you know what the Rosetta Stone is? The Rosetta stone is a very important artifact that was discovered during the French invasion of Egypt in the year 1799. You may ask why this is important. Well because of the Rosetta Stone, the historians and scientists now understand ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Previous to the discovery, Egyptian writing had been indecipherable.…
The legacy that the establishment of hieroglyphics has left to the modern era is the gift of improved written communication. With a recognized set of alphabet, people at present have been able to effectively express their ideas and sentiments through various forms of written communication. With the emergence of various technologies like mobile phones and computers, written communication has even become easier and able to reach people from various parts of the globe. Thus, people are given the opportunity to effectively convey their messages to one another by using a common alphabet and language system that they can understand, preventing unnecessary conflicts or misunderstandings that could potentially happen along the process of communication.…