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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Now I Know.By Michael FosterI had a colleague in work who had a most unusual paperweight. It was a miniature limestone replica of the Rosetta Stone while we both had a vague notion of its significance neither of us knew the full import of the stone. Ten years after retirement while browsing on the site I came across this gem of book. At first I thought it might be a bit too academic for me, but to my surprise it turned out to be a very readable informative book. To think that our knowledge understanding of ancient was unlocked by finding of the key which the Rosetta stone is clearly simply explained in this book.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy Von MartiusA classical work of Wallis Budge.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Most of the book are just translations ...By Luis MansillaSince I didn't find a more compelling book to read about this subject, such as "The Keys of Egypt", I read this little book. Most of the book are just translations of the original writings in the Rosetta Stone so just a few words are dedicated to the most interesting part, the story to decipher the egyptian hieroglyphics. Despite of that, I learned a lot with this book, although I wanted more.

The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences among them), the stone provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The stone is believed to have originally been displayed within a temple, possibly at nearby Sais. It was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval period, and was eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Delta. It was rediscovered there in 1799 by a soldier named Pierre-Francois Bouchard of the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this previously untranslated ancient language. Study of the decree was already under way when the first full translation of the Greek text appeared in 1803. It was 20 years, however, before the transliteration of the Egyptian scripts was announced by Jeas-Francois Champollion in Paris in 1822; it took longer still before scholars were able to read Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently. Major advances in the decoding were recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text (1799); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names (1802); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic (Thomas Young, 1814); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words (Champollion, 1822ndash;1824).

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